Stranger Dimensions Proving we actually live in a b-movie since 2011

No, that’s not a screenshot from some new version of Missile Command. It’s called BOLIDES, a website project that animates every witnessed meteorite collision with Earth from 861 to modern day. “Thousands of meteorites have collided with the Earth since ...

A new animation, brought to us by CERN’s James Gillies and TED-Ed animators, gives us a brief tour of those most mysterious of universal quandaries: dark matter and dark energy. “What appears to be the ordinary stuff of the universe ...

Your bananas are irradiated. Don’t worry; they’re perfectly safe. But the average banana contains at least 0.1 micro sieverts (0.1 μSv) of radiation. Not enough to harm anyone, no, but it’s something. In fact, this is what’s known as the ...

Sure, the world of Minecraft can be a pretty dark place. Old, abandoned fortresses, strange urban legends, maybe even a Slender Man or two. But the best thing about Minecraft is that it’s effectively a virtual box of LEGOs. You ...

How would you like to send your name and a haiku straight to the Red Planet? Who’s it for? Who’s gonna read it when it gets there? These are questions I can’t answer, but NASA is giving everyone this unique ...

Not much to say about the above video. It’s only the smallest stop-motion film ever made, created by moving (and filming) single atoms. It’s a minute and a half long; watch it and be amazed. And then watch how it ...

In the very beginning of the universe, at the starting shot of the big bang, there existed equal amounts of matter and antimatter. But almost instantly, most antimatter vanished. Why? If this was the case, matter and antimatter should have ...