Dipping a ball in titanium tetrachloride to make the world's smokiest ball
This guy bought some titanium tetrachloride which basically turns into white smoke when exposed to air and decided to soak a ball in it to make the...
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This guy spent five years building this world record domino robot
Mark Rober, the former NASA engineer who builds all those package thief glitter bombs, spent 5 years building this robot that sets up dominoes. Not only does...
This is what happens when you pour liquid nitrogen into a dirty container
This is a short video showing what happens when you pour liquid nitrogen into a dirty container. I'm not a scientist so I can't give a scientific...
Cybathlon pits technically assisted pilots against each other
The Cybathlon is a multi-sport international competition in which people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-of-the-art technical assistance. It's basically...
Lunar transit of the International Space Station
This is clear and stable footage of the International Space Station transiting the moon on July 16, 2021 taken using only an iPhone 12 Pro and an...
Simulating burn-up on reentry using a plasma wind tunnel
This is a video simulating the burn-up of a Solar Array Drive Mechanism during atmospheric reentry using a plasma wind tunnel. This Solar Array Drive Mechanism (SADM)...
Balls bouncing on one of the world's bounciest surfaces
This is a video of a ball being bounced on one of the world's bounciest surfaces. It makes it sound like some super secret scientific material, but...
Guy breathes in the deeper voice gas and things get weird
This is a video of Cody from Cody's Lab breathing in sulfur hexafluoride and then perfluorobutane and then trying to talk. Both are much denser than oxygen...
Monkey plays 'MindPong' with his Neuralink.
Elon Musk's Neuralink startup has released this video of a nine year old macaque playing "MindPong" with his Neuralink. Today we are pleased to reveal the Link's...
Using A4 metric paper to explain everything in the Universe
This is a video by CGP Grey using the proportions of A4 metric paper to explain everything in the Universe. Seriously. It's clearly inspired by the classic...
Researchers discover a sea slug's detached head can crawl around and grow a whole new body
Researchers have discovered that a sea slug's detached head can crawl around and grow a whole new body days after being separated from its body. Three days...
NASA released footage of Perseverance Rover's descent and touchdown on Mars
NASA released footage from the Perseverance Rover's cameras during its descent and touchdown on Mars and it's some of the most incredible footage I've ever seen in...
NASA's Perseverance Rover will attempt a complicated Mars landing tomorrow
NASA's Perseverance Rover will attempt to land on the most difficult terrain ever targeted on Mars tomorrow and this video breaks down what's involved. All landings on...
DALL-E is a neural network that generates images from text captions
Researchers at OpenAI have created a neural network called DALL-E (named after Pixar's WALL-E and artist Salvadore Dali) that creates images from text captions. As long as...
A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest while staying in formation
Researchers have figured out a way to navigate a swarm of drones through randomly spaced trees while maintaining formation: The approach builds on a single-drone navigation technique,...
SpaceX Starship explodes during attempted landing after successful test flight
The SpaceX Starship SN8 prototype had its first successful high-altitude test flight yesterday, though it came in a little too hot during the landing and ended up...
The Arecibo Observatory collapsed on Tuesday and the whole thing was captured on video
The famed Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was being decommissioned after two cable failures in four months, but engineers had not figured out a way to safely...
Using AI to remove objects from photos and video
Researchers have figured out a way to use AI to fill in gaps in images, essentially automating the ability to seamlessly erase objects from photos or video....