Awesome Science

Some people believe that the original Apollo moon landing was faked. For any remaining doubters, NVIDIA used their Maxwell GPU tech to show how the lighting in the controversial photos were accurate to the real moon.

While technically, we all die the same way, depending on where you live, what will lead to your ultimate demise can vary greatly. It’s sobering that some of life’s greatest pleasures can be so deadly in parts of the world.

Need the Cliffs’ Notes for the physics lesson where they explained the difference between matter and antimatter? Minute Physics does their best to sum up this perplexing science at their usual rapid-fire pace.

(NSFW, Gross) MRI scanning is low risk and pain-free,  allowing doctors and researchers to take lots of images. Vox shares a few animated MRI scans of humans engaging in various activities. Yes. Yes it shows that. That too.

Men’s Health manages to take an embarassing subject that you probably never cared to know about, and turns it into an amusing and informative animation, courtesy of illustrator Rami Niemi and director Giant Ant.

TED-Ed’s Anje-Margriet Neutel gives us an overview of the feedback loops present in nature, and how critical they are to maintaining the balance of our ecosystems. Also, we thought Hummus was a Middle Eastern appetizer.

A tough little REMUS-100 underwater vehicle was outfitted with several cameras by a team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and captured some amazing footage of Great White Sharks doing what they do best.

If you didn’t have the time to watch COSMOS, animated infographic experts Kurzgesagt created this short film which does its best to condense everything need to know about the composition of the Earth in just 7 minutes.

For National Geographic’s Die Trying, adventurer George Kourounis zip-lined over a flaming gas crater in Turkmenistan, on an exploratory mission looking for “extremophile” microbes which can survive in such insane conditions.

To help preserve the diversity of stone fruit, artist Sam Van Aken has produced these very special trees capable of growing peaches, nectarines, cherries, apricots and even almonds, by grafting numerous trees together. More here.

Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Get your mind out of the gutter. These four simple terms are an easy way to understand how jet engines work. Learn more in GE’s Masterclass series, which breaks down complex tech into layman’s terms.

While the “hot ice” shown in this video isn’t really ice, it’s still a trippy chemical reaction created when a liquified form of sodium acetate trihydrate comes in contact with the solid form of itself, creating ice-like crystals.

Our world is loaded with bacteria, viruses and other organisms. Fortunately, for most of us, our immune systems fend off these nasties. KurzGesagt boils down the complexities of our bodies’ self-defense system for us non-scientists.

We’re used to optical illusions, but sounds can play tricks on us too. The Pulse on WHYY demonstrates how we make sense of gibberish by providing our brains with context. Part of the Your Brain exhibit at Philly’s Franklin Institute.

A neat trick that makes clear objects dipped into liquid appear to have vanished. The secret – using glycerol or another clear, viscous liquid with the same refractive index as the outer glassware. Yeah, science!

Nitinol is an alloy made from nickel and titanium that can regain its original shape when heated. In this clip from science geek MIST8K, he shows off the material’s amazing properties. Also, we just added the word “scrumpled” to our dictionary.

A bumblebee was trapped in a spider’s web and looked like it was about to be lunch when a fellow bee saved the day. We now turn you over to David Attenbor– er, YouTuber Keith John Adams for the full report.

To infinity and beyond! Veritasium’s Derek Muller looks at the nature of our ever-expanding universe, how space itself moves faster than the speed of light, and how the universe is dramatically larger in light years than its age.

Russia’s Kola Superdeep Borehole took 24 years to drill, yet only goes a fraction of the way into our planet. SciShow explains what it took to drill 7.5 miles down, and why we may never know exactly what’s at Earth’s core.

Did you know you can create a 10,000 RPM motor with a battery, a drywall screw, a strand of wire and a magnet? In this video we see this scientific concept of homopolar motors at work.

This tiny sensor is like a Tricorder in real life. It will identify the composition of foods, plants and objects by scanning their molecular fingerprint, checking an online database, then displaying their chemical makeup on your mobile device.

Vsauce’s Michael Stevens is back to ask and attempt to answer another imponderable: just how many things are there in the universe? And we’re not just talking about physical objects – you see, everything is a thing. Even this post.

It happens to all of us. You get a bottle of ketchup and you can’t get it to come out at all. Then you slap the bottle hard and it pours out all over the table. TEDucator George Zaidan explains the physics behind ketchup’s bad behavior.