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Category: Science
How To Make Your Own Hand Sanitiser
Still can’t get hold of a bottle of Purell? Here’s how to make your own hand sanitiser at home (and what NOT to use).
15 sleep myths, debunked by sleep experts
Do you really only need 5 hours of sleep? Is “resting your eyes” as good as actual sleep? Two sleep experts debunk 15 common sleep myths.
The difference between cryonics and cryogenics
It’s a phenomenon associated with prolonging life. But cryonics and cryogenics are two different things.
Recreate a nuclear fission chain reaction with this cool script
With a few hundred lines of code, Chris Williams of The Register gives an illustrated view of nuclear fission.
Federica Fragapane’s Periodic Table of Elements in Danger
If elements were animals, some would be on the vulnerable list. This periodic table shows the ones at risk.
Vaccines & Why They’re So Important
That’s not the title of the video but it should be and here’s why.
What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
Kurzgesagt answers a very important question about nuclear weapons and the answer is harrowing. According to the organisation, the world holds 15,000 nuclear bombs (with most of them in the hands of the US and Russia). So what would happen if they all went off at the same time? Kurzgesagt couldn’t find an adequate source …
Time: The History & Future of Everything (according to Kurzgesagt)
We all need perspective every now and again and Kurzgesagt gave us just that. Time is relative they say. It’s more of an excuse for procrastinators and unpunctual than quantum physicists. But many of us lament the lack of time we have. The Kurzgesagt YouTube channel was created in 2013 and mainly cover scientific topics …
Scientist Duo Win Nobel Prize for Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel prize for their efforts “harnessing the cancer patient’s own immune system to destroy tumours”. A cure for cancer remains elusive but two immunologists have won science’s most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their work in cancer immunotherapy. Allison discovered a molecule that halted …
What is ASMR and why does it give people “brain orgasms”?
If you like getting tingles, you’ll love ASMR. Here’s a quick primer on the physical sensation.
Now You Can Simulate The Universe With IllustrisTNG. Sort Of.
The IllustrisTNG universe simulation is helping cosmologists study dark matter and other cosmic mysteries. We hold the universe accountable for a lot of life’s changes. Some of us even “speak” things into existence with its help. But there’s so much we don’t know about that infinite vastness we call the universe. As cosmologists and physicists …