How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS
AdultsDesignScienceSpaceFuture... Mars is a disappointing hellhole lacking practically everything we need to stay alive. It looks like we’ll only ever have small crews spend a miserable time hidden underground.
When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?
AdultsHealthHistoryHumanScience... By combining historical demography and epidemiology, we can (sort of) determine how people throughout history have died.
Explore the three main ways viruses can be driven to extinction, and dig into the possibility of COVID-19 dying out.
AdultsHealthHistoryHumanScience... Viruses are wildly successful organisms. There are about 100 million times as many virus particles on Earth as there are stars in the observable universe.
I tested the US Military’s secret space weapon
AdultsConstructionHistoryScienceSpaceTechnology... An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on multiple occasions, so we tested it.
Anthropology’s Greatest Hoax
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceCulture... Scientists are sometimes deemed objective observers of the world in which we live, but that’s not entirely true. They’re still human and can find themselves victim to fraudsters just like the lot of us.
Black Hole Star – The Star That Shouldn't Exist
AdultsEducationScienceSpace Black hole stars may have been the largest stars to ever exist. They burned brighter than galaxies and were Larger than any star today or that could ever exist in the future.
Why do you want to squeeze cute things?
AdultsHumanPsychologyScience Explore the psychology of the phenomenon known as cute aggression, which is the urge to squeeze, bite or pinch something cute.
Intro to Geology
AdultsEducationLifeScienceGeology... Geology is the study of planet Earth, its origin and evolution, its fundamental structure, the properties of minerals, rocks, and fluids of which it is composed, and the evolution of its biosphere.
The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe
AdultsLifeScienceSpace Supernovae are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing enough energy to outshine galaxies. We have no real metaphor for their power – if the sun were to magically go supernova it would feel like you were being hit by the energy of a nuclear explosion, every second. For weeks.
How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element
AdultsEducationScienceChemistry For thousands of years, water was thought to be an element. That is, until some of the greatest chemists in the world managed to crack it open.
The world depends on a strange collection of items. They're not cheap
AdultsEducationLifeScienceSociety... This government warehouse keeps our entire society up to standard.
Veritasium's Derek Muller Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
AdultsEducationFilmScienceMediaInternet Culture... Veritasium's Derek Muller answers the web's most searched questions about himself. Where did the name 'Veritasium' come from? Is Veritasium a real element? Where does Derek live? Is he married? What was Veritasium's first video? Derek answers all these questions and much more!
What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes
AdultsEducationScienceEnergyTechnology... Energy use can be confusing – I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house? That's why we made these things spud-tacularly simple.
Flavor Science: What's Really in a Pumpkin Spice Latte
AdultsFoodFunHistoryScience... If you take a look at an ingredients list, odds are you’ll find natural and artificial flavors somewhere in there.
Civilian Tries on NASA Spacesuit For the First Time
AdultsConstructionScienceSpaceTechnology... How does WIRED's Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit?
Primitive Technology: Rock-Throwing Catapult (Trebuchet)
AdultsCreativityEducationNatureDIYEngineeringScience... I built a trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counter weight to store gravitational potential energy which is then used to fire a projectile via a sling.
The Deadliest Virus on Earth
AdultsHealthHumanScienceNatureHistory... In the 1970s thousands of Chickenheads rained from the sky in Europe, making foxes and other wildlife confused and very happy. Why?