Mehdi Sadaghdar runs Electroboom, a Youtube channel that shows off the fun, and occasionally dangerous sides of engineering.

Earth & Energy

Mehdi Sadaghdar runs Electroboom, a YouTube channel that shows off the fun, and occasionally dangerous sides of electrical engineering.

Explosive and Comedic Electrical Education by Electroboom

How a well-meaning microbiology student freaked the internet out.

Please don't post your hand dryer science experiment on the internet

Health & Medicine

A well-meaning student stuck a petri dish into a hand drier and cultivated a luxuriant landscape of bacterial colonies. Then it uploaded it online.

Please Don't Post Your Hand Dryer Science Experiment on the Internet

Unless you want bacteria with a side of skepticism.

Please Don’t Post Your Hand Dryer Science Experiment on the Internet

Two women and four men were aboard the mission, all of whom wore mood-gauging sensors to assist with the monitoring of their well-being.

After "living on Mars" for eight months, Mission V subjects are coming home

Off World

This grueling mission has served a critical purpose in the progressive journey to Mars — a mission NASA aims to achieve with humans as soon as the 2030s.

After “Living on Mars” for Eight Months, Mission V Subjects Are Coming Home

"The most challenging part of the mission right now has been the end of the mission."

Most of the time it doesn’t take too long…

Hard Science

Most of the time it doesn't take too long...

Watch: Six of the Longest Experiments Ever

An experiment offers proof that bacteria can actually see. They use their entire one-celled selves as a camera lens to focus light.

New Study Reveals that Bacteria Can “See”

Researchers have demonstrated the effects of superposition on the scale of everyday objects.

New Quantum Record: Ball of Atoms Ends up in Two Spots at Once

Why we should give everyone a basic income | Rutger Bregman | TEDxMaastricht

Sci-Fi Visions

A new German experiment explores the possibilities of emancipatory basic income and what its implications are on productivity and creativity.

Germany’s Basic Income Experiment: What Would You Do If You Had $1,100 a Month With No Strings?

FromQuarkstoQuasars

Placing a marshmallow Peep in a bell jar and sucking out the air causes the candy to undergo a slightly horrific-looking transformation.

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