This is the Periodic Table D120 made and sold by The MintTinGuys on Etsy. It’s a solid piece of aluminum (element 13, in the boron group) engraved with an element of the periodic table on each side. The die measures 2.4″, weighs over half a pound, and costs $120. That’s

Electricity: it’s terrifying. And to prove that point, this is a video of electrical engineer Greg Leyh turning one of his giant Tesla coils (because who can have just one?) into a targeted high-voltage plasma cannon. It’s like a mini Death Star. He then tests the ray on a model

Because what is science if not magic wearing a lab coat and fake mustache so you don’t recognize it, this is a video of science essayist Steve Mould using an additional prism and convex lens to recombine the ROYGBIV separated from one prism back into a beam of white light.

Because almost everything under the sea is reminiscent of some alien from the Star Wars universe, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have named a newly discovered species of coral after everyone’s favorite growling, bowcasting Wookie co-pilot. And rightfully so I dare say. The coral, named Iridogorgia chewbacca,

After performing a modified version the classic rubber hand experiment on octopuses, Japanese researchers Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda at The University of the Ryukyus have suggested octopuses may experience a sense of body ownership similar to humans. In the experiment, a partition and fake tentacle were used to cover

Using nanolithography, Dr. Kelly Morrison and her team at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England have created the world’s smallest violin, measuring only 35 microns long and 13 microns wide. For reference, the average width of a human hair is about 50 microns. Damn, that’s one small violin! Unfortunately it’s not

In a modified version of the Stanford marshmallow experiment (in which children were told they would receive a second marshmallow if they could avoid eating a first for a certain period of time), researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory at the University of Chicago have determined that cuttlefish can pass

This is the winning music video of the 2025 Dance Your Ph.D. Competition, a contest in which doctoral candidates describe their research in song and dance. The winner was Dr. Sulo Roukka of the University of Helsinki, who performed his dissertation ‘Insights into oral chemesthetic perception: A focus on food-related