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Lead Can Be Turned Into Gold

The answer to this anonymous question, “You don’t actually believe lead can be turned into gold, right?” is awesome. Well, thanks to nuclear research and particle…

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Carl Sagan Quote About Kindergarten Kids and Science

Carl Sagan said this profound quote in an interview on a tvo talk show about how kindergarten kids are avid science enthusiasts. They are excited…

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Lab Grown Gemstones Are Not Fake

This is a great point, it is really stupid that people say that lab grown gemstones are “fake”. They are really the exact same thing,…

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Types of Dragons Guide and Family Tree

@drakthug drew this handy simple dragon guide. Then biologist Drosophilamelanobastard decided to create a more scientifically rigorous trait based phylogeny (family tree) assigning character states as 0 if…

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Scientists Are Terrible at Naming Things

LOL! Scientists, astronomers, and marine biologists are all absolutely terrible at naming things. This post is all the proof you need. Starting with Exhibit A:…

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Can You Lick the Science?

LOL! This list answer all you “Can you lick the science?” burning questions. From genetics, to physics (HOW???), to epidemiology (NOOOO!!!), to astronomy and more:…

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Humans are Death Breathers

Have you ever asked yourself, “Is oxygen poisonous?”. Well the people in this post did and came to the conclusion that humans are death breathers….

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Humans Have Invisible Stripes

Ok while this post starts off about aliens talking about human stretch marks, it gets really interesting once it goes into the fact that humans…

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Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast

Seamus Blackley tweeted this incredible thread about how he was able to bake bread using 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from ancient Egyptian pottery. It’s so crazy…

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Scientists Taught Spinach To Send Emails

If you asked me yesterday, “Can spinach send emails?”, I would have said a hard no. But, it actually turns out that thanks to our…

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