Awesome Science

Vsauce brightens our day with another educational clip, which explains all of the crazy things that would happen to us if the Sun were to vanish. Guess we’d have 8 minutes and 20 seconds of blissful ignorance at least.

By using a Spyder III Krypton green laser beam to light strips of flash paper set into bottles with a small amount of alcohol in them, WorldScott puts on not only a cool, but short pyrotechnics show, but plays a little tune.

YouTuber Brusspup returns to his experiment with water and sound, but this time he set it up so the hose was in contact with the speaker. It’s a shame we can’t see this with our own eyes.

Over a decade ago, marine biologist Roger Hanlon stumbled onto an octopus as it transformed to match its surroundings, leading him to study how cephalopods morph in color, shape and texture.

A rare look inside the personal life of Stephen Hawking, the 71-year-old cosmologist who defied the constant threat of death from illness to inspire generations of scientists and humankind in general.

Our favorite engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar is back, and he’s as careless as ever. This time he sets out to answer which type of electricity is more painful – alternating current or direct current.

By turning the screen of an old rear-projection TV into a giant fresnel magnifying lens, Grant Thompson magnifies the light of the sun to cook food, boil liquid, ignite fuel, and melt pennies.

60 Minutes’ Morley Safer takes a fascinating look inside the art, science and business of the flavorings found in virtually every processed food we eat. How about some delicious strawberry beaver’s backside?

Dipping a lit orange LED into a vat of liquid nitrogen produces an unexpected result, causing the color of the light to change dramatically, while giving off a miniature light show in its freezing cold bath.

Melanie Hoff injected 15,000 volts into a sheet of plywood, with each electrical charge burning a fractal-style pattern into the wood, resulting in a unique, organic work of art. (Thanks Dion!)

Incredible footage captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory of a solar eruption that formed a looping structure that’s both mesmerizing and reminds us of the awesome power of our Sun.

Illusionist, tinkerer, and all-around cool guy Brusspup stimulates our eyes and our brains with huge bubbles filled with dry ice vapors and a spectacular fog show when they each explode.

Vsauce explores one of those questions that we’re sure you’ve all asked yourself at some point. How can we be sure the colors, feelings and other perceptions are the same as other people’s?

After testing its effect on water, YouTuber carsandwater tested his red hot ball of nickel against a block of ice. Has he come up with the new “Will it Blend?” What’s next? An iPad?

YouTuber carsandwater retries his hit experiment with a bigger ball of nickel and a cup of hot water. Aside from producing unusual noises, the setup also demonstrates the Leidenfrost effect.

Bumbling engineer Mehdi Sadaghdar is back with another educational and dangerous episode. This time he shows us how coil guns work, and does more things you shouldn’t do when making one.

We’ve seen the interesting acoustic phenomenon that cold can cause. Now YouTuber Carsandwater shows us that heat can produce sound effects that are just as interesting.

While this topic may seem better suited to our other site, YouTuber Mehdi Sadaghdar’s “do as I say, not as I do” approach in talking about electrostatic discharge makes it right at home on The Awesomer.

ASAPScience provides a good excuse to get drunk – not that you needed any – points out a trick “fact” about the brain, and makes the term “data transfer” dirty in this compilation of amazing trivia.

A group of 30 teachers take one of those anti-gravity flights, tossing 2000 ping pong balls into the air just when the modified 727 goes weightless. Where’s ping pong baby when you need him?

This highly educational episode of Minute Physics reveals some of the “wrong” – i.e. simplified – facts that were taught to us in school about gravity, velocity, distance and light.

Cinesaurus puts a more positive spin on the funny but morbid viral ad Dumb Ways to Die, making a song that stars the Curiosity rover and other geeky references. Let’s call it a constructive parody.

We’ve already been mesmerized by the scientific sorcery that is quantum levitation, but the part where Dr. Boaz Almog floats the disc upside-down on the rail really messed with our heads.