Awesome Science

Chefs at Chicago’s famous Alinea restaurant continue to innovate and stupefy at the dinner table, with their latest creation – an edible green apple balloon – filled with helium you can inhale.

Ayumu the chimp proves that in some ways, the apes have capacities which exceed most of us – as he memorizes complex numeric patterns faster and more accurately than your average child genius.

It’s pretty stunning to see how the human mind can be programmed. These Japanese children perform complex calculations using imaginary abacuses while we still have trouble counting on our fingers.

While we dream about the future of racing, the Japan Institute of Science and Technology build sweet tracks for Wipeout model vehicles and race them using quantum levitation.

It’s pretty cool to watch, but we don’t recommend you recreate Fysikshow’s Pyro Board for your NYE blast. It works by transmitting sound waves through a flammable gas to create flame patterns.

Today’s Minute Physics lesson teaches us something we never really needed to know – no matter how hard you try, you can’t comb a hairy ball. Is this what we’re teaching kids in school these days?

Developed by Ross Nanotechnology, NeverWet is a silicon-based coating that repels water- or oil-based substances, making it useful for protection against corrosion, bacteria, water damage and more.

The latest video from Symphony of Science celebrates “the importance and inspirational qualities of space exploration.” Featuring scientists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox and Carolyn Porco.

We’ve been pretty impressed by the previous footage shot from the International Space Station orbiting the Earth, but this 5 minute edit by Michael König is truly the pièce de résistance.

Ever wonder what happens when you crack a raw egg 100-feet underwater? Us neither, but these divers show the effect of the pressure levels at that depth. Oh, and that somebody wants lunch.

Vsauce Michael is back with another science-y goodness – this time explaining how much the Internet… weighs. Even packing its massive wealth of information, it manages to keep a slim figure.

If you’ve ever wondered why we fiddle with our clocks twice a year, Springing forward and Falling backward, C.G.P. Grey explains it all, but just enough to leave us asking “why, again?”

YouTube knowledge-dropper vsauce gives us a brief primer on dreams. Find out why sometimes we can’t move our bodies even when we’re awake, the possible explanations for dreaming and more.

Tel-Aviv U. demos the perplexing properties of quantum superconductors which will leave non-science types scratching their heads, and us wanting hoverboards made from this stuff.

A puppet play depicting what happens after a whale dies. The whole concept doesn’t seem particularly intriguing, until the final part where you find out just how significant the whole process is.

An extraordinary view of the Northern and Southern Auroras captured from the ISS as it orbits the globe, making Earth look like some far-off alien planet. Another awesome clip here.

Researchers at UC Berkeley recorded brain activity while subjects watched YouTube videos under an fMRI, then reconstructed what they saw using a computer algorithm. Total Recall, here we come.

Some of the world’s most brilliant minds honored with the logos of equally legendary musicians in geeky apparel Monsters of Grok. The designs are also available as bags, hoodies and women’s wear.

We were hoping for maybe a new clip of Coach McGuirk, but this is just as good. Watch, listen, and learn to see what we mean. You brain may just come unhinged after you watch this.

Mathematician/musician/all-around hottie Vi Hart is back with a layperson’s explanation of sound waves, frequencies, amplification, and how we hear sounds, with her usual mathematical spin.

Using just a knife and his hands, Tim Jones makes a magnifying glass out of a block of ice, then uses it to start a fire. Not the most practical idea, but we’d never have thought of it either.

A loving tribute to NASA, the end of the Shuttle program and decades of space exploration, set to the words of Carl Sagan, along with incredible, moving imagery from Earth and beyond.

Bill Hammack explains why it’s better to have one line for multiple checkout lanes than a line per cashier, and why in the case of the latter the grass is indeed (often) greener on the other side.