Science

December 4, 2017

Ex-NASA Engineer Uses Science to Transform Hot Tub Full of Sand into “Liquid Soup”

Ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober specializes in making science fun and exciting via his YouTube channel, which has over 2.5 million subscribers. And recently, after 25 attempts, he was able to transform sand into liquid, making for a unique dip in the hot tub for him and his nephews. From floating rubber duckies to sinking in like quicksand, it's amazing to see how the sand goes from solid to liquid in seconds.

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November 7, 2017

100-Megapixel Photo Lets You Observe Rich Details of Craters on the Moon

Most of us spend a good portion of our lives thinking you can only get a good look at the moon through a high-powered telescope, but technology continues to prove us wrong, as NASA places stunning images from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for the public to view and process. Orbiting Earth's moon since 2009, there's plenty of material to dig through and when Seán Doran (a master of processing raw NASA images)

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October 3, 2017

New Study Suggests That Man May Not Originate From Africa After All

While it's commonly thought that hominins—a tribe that eventually led to modern humans—originate from Africa, a new study is casting doubt on the theory. A group of researchers recently published two studies that give evidence that early man may have originated from Europe, bucking the theory of African origins that dates back to Charles Darwin. The international research team published two papers in PLOS One pointing to the Balkans, specifically Greece, as a possible starting point for humanity. The evidence?

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