Awesome Science

Brett Jubinville and Tinman Creative Studio have posted the first episode of their animated series which envisions a world in which our greatest scientific minds possess superpowers, and must help save the world from evil. It’s proof that Kickstarter can lead to great things.

DNews points out that 2 million years of cooking have made us prefer the taste of hot food over cold food. Cooking lets us eat more efficiently because it pre-digests raw food and destroys harmful organisms, which our modern stomachs are ill-equipped to handle.

While you probably have moved on from storing your data on CD- and DVD-ROMs, chances are you still have some lying around with sensitive files on them. Photonic Induction is here to show you the proper way to permanently wipe all the data from your discs.

What makes humans humans was the result of thousands of years of evolution. However, science may accelerate things. AsapSCIENCE looks at how we might be different 1,000 years from now. We’re guessing our necks will be bent forward to adapt to texting.

Aircraft maker Boeing shows off Microlattice, an incredibly lightweight, but resiliant metal structure that’s formed from 99.99% air. It’s hoped that this technology may someday translate to a reduction in weight for airplanes and other vehicles.

While developing a device designed to unravel proteins, researchers at Flinders University discovered their vortex fluidic device can also do something unfathomable – take an already cooked hen egg, and restore it to its prior state. TED explains the science of how this works.

Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh wanted to create an accurate scale model of our solar system, since it turns out existing models cheat to make things easier to visualize. The finished product required time, planning, seven miles of dry lake bed, and a mountain of creativity.

The Slow-Mo Guys have subjected themselves to all manner of torture so we could see it in excruciating detail. But when it came to being shot with a high-voltage weapon at Taser HQ, they left that to another human guinea pig.

The Royal Institution demonstrates a substance known as nitrogen triiodide, which is so highly unstable that merely touching it makes it explode. We’re not sure how they even managed to handle it to set up the experiment.

YouTube regular brusspup is back to show us two handfuls of simple science experiments you can do with household liquids, from lighting things on fire with water to separating colors thanks to the varied density of different liquids.

YouTuber Tom Scott explains that teleportation is much more powerful than pop fiction makes it out to be. You could die after just one jump, or you can bless humanity with infinite energy and intergalactic travel.

The red hot nickel ball encroaches into Will It Blend? territory. Can the literally hot new thing take on the legendary 3310 and its mythical indestructibility? Let’s just say this is like when Apollo Creed took on Ivan Drago.

Mental Floss‘ Elliott Morgan debunks misconceptions about stuff that is either thought to be deadly but isn’t, and situations that could kill you if you don’t handle them correctly. What did we learn? Never skydive with an umbrella.

Our friends at Kurzgesagt are back with another informative animation – this time about the science of the perplexing stuff inside and around the stuff we know about, which we don’t have any good way of examining or measuring.

Not Drizzy’s Meek Mill diss or Pippen’s Nikes. We’re talking about humanity’s greatest discovery. It’s Okay to Be Smart sums up Michael Faraday’s beginner lessons on fire, specifically candlelight.

AsapSCIENCE looks at the changes your body would go through if you stopped eating food and never looked back. Sure, you’d lose some weight to start, and you can survive longer than you might think, then things run off the rails badly.

You’d think that placing a searing hot sphere of metal on a block of foam would cause it to melt into a puddle of stinky goo. But what happens is pretty unexpected in the latest Red Hot Nickel Ball vs. Something video by CarsandWater.

The Backyard Scientist just got his hands on a shiny new camera that can shoot at 1,000 fps. Here, he shows off three neat experiments captured in slow-mo, including a “sword” that’s made from a stream of flaming butane.

File this one under the “what kind of sorcery is this?” category. This demonstration of carbon nanotube aerogel technology will have you scratching your head as to how this stuff seemingly defies the laws of physics.

AsapSCIENCE looks at a variety of facts about dogs, from their impressive schnozzes, to their ability to respond to emotions, their intelligence compared to humans, and the reasons they do the things that endear them to us.

Kurzgesagt teaches us about the importance of honey bees to our world’s delicate ecosystem, and the science behind the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder. Next time you see a bee buzzing around you head, think about this video.

Despite the heavy losses suffered by the failed SpaceX cargo mission and the other two missions before it, Smarter Every Day points out that these failures yield priceless data, and that they couldn’t have happened at a better time.

A team at Columbia University have come up with a new way to capture energy. The tech uses bacteria that expand and contract based on the level of humidity. With enough linked together, they can propel a machine. More on Quartz.