The largest black holes in the Universe

How big can they get? Where do they hide? And what havoc do these strange and powerful monsters wreak on the cosmic landscape?

White blood cell vs. Bacteria

Weird to see, but this happens in your body all the time:

Bizarre fish found in Brazil

A gelatinous fish found off Brazil’s Bahia coast has been touted as a previously unknown species. But the six-foot-long, toothed oddity may be a known member of a group of mysterious bottom-dwellers known as jellynose fish, another expert says:

Dry ice bubble experiment

By Steven Spangler. Visit his site for more scientific fun like this:

Science education in Denmark

If you are a scientist, go to Denmark. A funny clip by University of Copenhagen, Denmark:

Mythbusters on the Moonlanding conspiracies

The guys from Mythbuster discussing the conspiracy theories about the Apollo moon landing:

CD-player(s) in microgravity

Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity onboard the International Space Station.

(April 26, 2003) — In his final episode of Saturday Morning Science, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit demonstrates gyroscopic spin stabilization. Pettit floats several portable compact disc players in microgravity that are spinning and not spinning:

The World of Chemistry

The European Research Commission explains how basic chemical compounds are formed with .. a dance party. Music: Der Fledermaus Can’t Get It performed by Von Sudenfed.

Chainsaw-powered bicycle

"As I was riding my bicycle home from Critical Mass, I came across an inventor who creatively rigged up a chainsaw to his bicycle. I tried to follow him but I simply wasn’t fast enough."

Christopher Hendryx - Oxygen

A short 3D animation, explaining some chemical elementary knowledge by Christopher Hendryx:

Giant Shark - The Big Tooth

The megalodon (”big tooth” in Greek), Carcharodon megalodon or Carcharocles megalodon (in dispute), was a giant shark that lived in prehistoric times. The oldest remains of this species found are about 18 million years old and C. megalodon became extinct in the Pleistocene epoch probably about 1.5 million years ago. It was the apex predator of its time and is the largest carnivorous fish known to have existed:

Scientific American Frontiers: Chimp minds

A visit with an engaging if unruly bunch of cousins that we formally broke up with about 6 or 7 million years ago. Click here to watch this show in High Definition:

6 of the Most Innocent-Looking Animal Assassins

A list of six most innocent-looking animal assassins, that will cause you a sweet and cute death if you don’t watch out. Below is the bullet ant, which “bitten by the ubiquitous bullet ant which could allegedly knock out a grown man for hours from the intense, burning pain”.

Click to start reading: 6 of the Most Innocent-Looking Animal Assassins

17 molecules that changed the world

A compilation by Cosmos magazine on 17 molecules and substances that changed the human world. Below is Aspirin, one of the most popular painkiller ever made by human.

Click to start reading: 17 molecules that changed the world

How ants communicate with each other

This video shows an experiment that finds out how ants communicate when they are looking for food, for example. They make different signals depending on the situation:

A Magnetic Movie

A award winning Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, produced @ the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA:

Breast… enlargement ringtone

Discovery Channel has an interesting video on an unique technique of Dr.Tomobechi from Japan, which can… enlarge a woman’s breast size by 3 centimetres just by listenning to particular ringtones within 10 days. Science or science fiction? You decide:

The Tonga volcano eruption

An undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Nuku’Alofa, Tonga on 18 March 2009. It created colums of stream and ash up to 100 metres into the air:

Sci-Fi channel

Creative print ads by Saatchi&Saatchi, Italy for Sci-Fi TV channel:

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Math-ing people

An interesting scientific report on how we, human, might have built-in math abilities from day 1. Click to start reading: Numbers