We may not feel it, but the Earth is constantly spinning at over 300 meters per second. But what would happen if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning? Michael of Vsauce explains that the moment the Earth, stopped everything that is not Earth would fly east at over 1,000 miles per hour! And that’s just the start. It…
On March 27, astronaut Scott Kelly embarked on a once-in-a-lifetime journey: a historic mission dubbed,A Year In Space. Kelly, along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, was sent to live aboard the International Space Station for a total of 522 days as part of NASAs research on the long-term effects of zero-gravity. With the mission, NASA…
A fossil is the remains or impression of an organism that lived in prehistoric times that has been preserved in rock. We have learned about the millions of years that have gone by without documentation by examining fossils that were exhumed by paleontologists. These, however, are some of the strangest finds dug up by scientists. They…
As the debate over global warming rages on, it can sometimes be difficult to articulate exactly how crucial it is for us to make some serious changes before its too late. Well, YouTube user BenMizzle09 discovered this video that most likely does a great job summarizing global warming. So, watch this and have all of…
The atmosphere we enjoy on Earth now is drastically different from that which existed in the planet’s early years. Earth’s primordial atmosphere is believed to have been eliminated, although until now it wasn’t very clear how this actually happened. A new study reports that around the time the moon formed, heavy bombardment from small objects…
Life on Earth, thanks to the mechanisms of natural selection and evolutionary biology, is incredibly diverse. Darwin once waxed lyrical about endless forms most beautiful, and he wasnt wrong: Life can be found everywhere, from the top of brand new volcanic islands to the dark depths of the planets crust. Now, a pioneering study has…
Experience what it feels like to fly over planet Earth in this cool time-lapse video taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. http://www.youtube.com/v/74mhQyuyELQ?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0 via Viral Viral Videos…
The oldest rocks ever discovered in our solar system have been dated back about 4.57 billion years, meaning Earth obviously finished forming later than that. However, determining exactly when that happened can be difficult. New research presented by French geochemists from the University of Lorraine at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California has revealed…
Popular science educator Michael from Vsauce returns to the web to discuss gravity and the Sun. As a thought experiment, he asks the interesting hypothetical, “What if the sun disappeared?“ It’s not going to happen, but interestingly enough, if it did, we wouldn’t be aware that anything was wrong for a good eight minutes, as it takes…
These photos might look like they come from an alien planet, but it turns out our own little Earth is capable of some truly weird stuff. All of these things occur naturally across the globe because of, like, science and stuff. A lot of the reasons why go over my head, but it’s all true. It’s easy to…