Awesome Science

A mind-blowing science experiment in which a beaker filled with a 50-meter-long string of metal beads wriggle their way out on their own. Stick around long enough, and you might learn something about Newtonian physics.

We’re not quite sure of the science behind lightning that fires upward to the sky, but we can tell you we’ve never seen it before this video, captured several years ago by Tom A. Warner over Rapid City, South Dakota.

Dr. Carl June and his colleagues were able to cure leukemia in a girl by using a “disabled form” of HIV – the virus that causes AIDS. The virus modified the patient’s T-cells so that they could destroy cancer cells. More at NYT.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from experimenter Brusspup. Here, he not only shows off the nifty effect of vibrations on sand, but that he’s a musician – having created the ethereal backing track, Dark Wave.

MinutePhysics answers a question we never knew was worth asking – do you really feel the temperature of other objects when you touch them? Unless you’re a physicist, the answer might surprise you.

Wicked Lasers is constantly harping on about how powerful – and dangerous – its 500mW Spyder III Krypton laser is. Well, YouTuber styropyro’s homemade laser produces a 3W beam. Watch it destroy a bunch of objects.

Vsauce2 takes a look at some animals with unusual defense mechanisms. Some of the animals include the pistol shrimp and the mimic octopus. We imagine the goblin shark’s face is enough to scare other animals away.

Imagine having a bouquet that fits on the tip of your finger. This familiar yet alien looking ‘flower’ is actually one of the microscopic photos taken of the crystals that form as a result of precisely tailored chemical reactions.

Designed for medical, scienctific and cooking applications, the handheld CRY-AC-3 is capable of freezing objects to -320°F in an instant. Perhaps that’s why Wired categorized it as one of its Most Dangerous Objects in the Office.

Buzzfeed continues their series of short video infographics with an informative clip about all of the things the human body will do in the next 30 seconds. Great job on those red blood cells! Keep up the good work!

We’re not sure of the physics behind The King of Random’s experiment, but our minds were sufficiently bent as he turns water into ice instantly. Apparently it has something to do with leaving the bottles outside in the freezing cold.

Before astronaut Chris Hadfield was wowing us from the International Space Station, he spent some time 2-1/2 atmospheres below the surface of the ocean. Here, he shows us how the sub-sea pressure affects a shaken soda can.

While we’re firm proponets of letting our brains wander aimlessly on the Internet, the guys at Epipheo and author Nicholas Carr say that today’s approach to consuming information may not be the best thing for our grey matter.

Hardware giant IBM made the world’s tiniest animation using carbon monoxide molecules. The stop-motion short was made using 5,000 atoms and can only be seen when it’s magnified 100 million times. Watch the making-of here.

What happens when you point a custom-made 500 milliwatt Blu-ray laser beam at a line of 100 black balloons? This, my friends, this. It takes the powerful laser just eight seconds to sear through every single one of the balloons.

Michael Stevens of Vsauce fame speaks to an audience for TEDEducation, yet again teaching us something we never knew we needed to know – and providing a little insight into the popularity of his YouTube channel.

Did you know that there we actually cry three different types of tears? Learn all about them and more as AsapScience discusses a couple of theories and claims about why humans are such crybabies.

If you’ve ever wondered just how sturdy the concrete pillars made to hold up buildings are, watch this video, in which University of Illinois engineers apply over a million pounds of pressure directly to a concrete cylinder.

Boston Dynamics’ versatile humanoid robot, PETMAN, takes to the runway and struts its stuff, demonstrating its ability to simultaneously amaze us with its technology and freak the hell out of us. The robopocalypse is nigh.

Minute Earth explains that theoretically, our planet could have mountains up to 5 times the height of Mount Everest. So why don’t such towering landforms exist? Watch the video to find out.

Fast, Furious and Funny team up with Vsauce for another edition of what we like to call “Will It Lift?” This time they put Sellotape to the test against a Ford Mondeo. Don’t get too excited about the midsize sedan going bang though.

Ronan the sea lion demonstrates an unusual talent not common outside of humans and the occasional bird. The marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz trained her to dance to rhythms. Though her taste in music is questionable.

While most of us do everything we can to avoid getting near a wasp’s nest, Ultraslo put their Phantom Miro 4 high-speed camera right in the middle of one. Everything you see here took place in less than 8/100ths of a second.