science

A smartphone + a few supplies + a few minutes = a super cool little microscope you can see with a magnification of up to 175X! And you can take photos of what you find. BONUS! Check out the video for the project. Great for home-schooled kids or maybe a science class that is lacking in the microscope department. What a great idea!

The 'five second rule' is that if food hits the floor, you have five seconds to pick it and still be safe. Well, it turns our food does not pick up that many germs when it lands on the floor. It was tested on carpet, laminated surface, and tile. Researchers did not see any big growth. But the type of flooring made a difference.

NASA announced the discovery of 715 new planets.  Now just to get a feel for the scope of this announcement, about 1,000 planets total had been identified in our galaxy. That is before this week.

Are you ready to see some science in slow motion? The Slow Mo Guys play with a hydrophobic surface and some magnetic liquid.

The 'Frankenburger' was tasted today (Aug. 5) in London. A team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger and hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help feed the world and fight climate change.

Nick LeGrand is a 13-year old baseball player from Kansa City, MO who has a rare blood disorder called severe aplastic anemia. This year he was told he couldn't play his favorite sport, baseball. However, tonight (6/12) he will get to throw out the first pitch at the Oakland Athletics/New York Yankees game. He will do it from 1,800 miles away.

Scientists believe that the key to discovering extraterrestrial life could lie deep in the festering, underground oceans of Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa. New research suggests that if the salt water ocean beneath the surface of the frigid moon ever makes it's way to the surface, creating an intergalactic petri dish capable of producing a life-promoting environment.

Not only is the famed Betelgeuse star set to burn out the remainder of its astronomical life, but it is also on an immediate crash course with a ginormous interstellar wall. Thanks science, we were just saying earlier how we never wanted to sleep ever again!