The Simple But Brilliant Engineering Behind a Nerf Blaster
YouTube brainbox 'engineerguy' takes us through the ingenious mechanism.
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YouTube brainbox 'engineerguy' takes us through the ingenious mechanism.
The Guinea Pig Club in East Grinstead was exclusive not for required riches: it was a society made up of battle-disfigured soldiers with bodies transformed by a visionary New Zealander doctor.
Holy Fantastic Voyage, Batman. The future of bodily medicine delivery is now.
Imagine bringing the brains of famous scientists into a band of time-travelling superheroes led by Winston Churchill. Well, now you don’t have to imagine, because the animated series Super Science Friends depicts exactly that. See more >>
Nature is not normally known for its tender compassion, so this observation is truly special.
They drink the blood of wounded sea birds, injured sea lions, and scratched-up humans — hopefully not in that order.
Entanglement is quantum mechanical mind-bender that is being understood better than ever before.
Dubbed Uyan and Dina, the unfortunate pair died just a few weeks after birth. Scientists say they’re the most complete remains of this extinct species ever found—whiskers and all.
And we may have them too.
We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough. But is that true?
A 41-year-old firefighter now bears the face of a 26-year-old man who recently died in an extreme cycling accident.
If you’ve ever snapped a photo of a plane’s spinning propeller, and then scratched your head over the bizarre results, this hypnotic GIF will help you understand what exactly went wrong. See more >>
Surprisingly, scientists know very little about the water that’s located beneath the Earth’s surface.
Instead of heat, these small balls of glue only need mechanical force to activate their sticky potential.
Binaural beats were just a curiosity until the 1970s, when Dr. Gerald Oster noticed that people varied in sensitivity to binaural beats and that people with some neurological conditions couldn’t hear them.
Paleontologists say Probrachylophosaurus bergei is a missing link between two other species, and it fills in vital pieces of the story of how crests evolved.
