Tag: science
NASA Footage Shows How Terrifyingly Vast Black Holes Are
The journey begins with 1601+3113, a dwarf galaxy hosting a black hole packed with the mass of 100,000 Suns. The matter is so compressed that even the black hole’s shadow is smaller than our Sun. The black hole at the heart of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A...
Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding
This is the sound of two black holes colliding! It was caught by the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) lab.
NASA Releases Audio of What a Black Hole ‘Sounds’ Like
On Sunday, August 21, 2022 Nasa released an audio clip that represents actual sound waves emanating from the enormous black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster.
Why Every Snowflake Is Unique – And Other Facts About Snow
How do snowflakes form? Why do they have six sides? Is it true that each snowflakes is unique?
Music and the Brain
Humans are musical animals 4 million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.
Moon Impact (First Person View)
🌙 🌎 Simulation of the Moon impacting the Earth, showing the effects that gravity would have on the Earth before impact and the total destruction it would cause afterwards. ***This video is an artistic representation and is not based on exact calculation...
Explained: Music
When does sound become music? Why are humans so uniquely able to master musicality? Researchers talk rhythm, octaves and the magic of song and dance.
The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real.
The Life and Times of Humans
The life and times of the human. We will forever be discovering new truths about ourselves and how we came to be who we are as a species; but there is so much we already know.
What’s the Science behind Music?
Sound is invisible, yet it's all around us! What's going on here? What exactly is a sound, anyway?
Maria Sibylla Merian: The Woman Who Changed Science Forever
Three hundred years ago it was widely believed insects spontaneously appeared from dust, mud, or rotten meat. Then Maria Sibylla Merian came along and changed science forever. The 17th Century artist and naturalist is celebrated as one of the world's firs...
Einstein’s Life in America Shown in Stunning Home Movies
Albert Einstein’s life in Long Island, New York was an idyllic one. But he continued to harbor a tremendous amount of empathy for his compatriots who had remained in Nazi Germany.
The Unexpected Math Behind van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art...
The Strange Thing That Turns Grasshoppers Into Locusts
Locusts don't have to be locusts. When they grow up by themselves, they lead pretty regular, grasshopper lives. But when conditions are right, well, it’s swarming time.