TikTok of the dayAlex Dainis: Genetics, Explained
A Stanford genetics PhD turns genes, mutations and fresh science news into quick, warm explainers — from the Nobel Prize to avocados that switch sex.
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TikTok of the dayA Stanford genetics PhD turns genes, mutations and fresh science news into quick, warm explainers — from the Nobel Prize to avocados that switch sex.
Site of the dayOur projectA bilingual health site with source-cited explainers and 25 calculators and self-tests that run right in your browser.
Telegram of the dayOne new scientific paper per post, boiled down to a single paragraph with a link to the original in Nature, PNAS or another journal.
TikTok of the dayThe former NASA engineer turns everyday questions into big, short experiments: crushing eggs by hand, roller-coaster blackouts and wild engineering tests.
Pinterest of the dayThe European Space Agency's own Pinterest board: 700+ images of galaxies, nebulae, planets and the Sun from Hubble, Webb, Gaia and Solar Orbiter, sorted into 14 sections.
Telegram of the dayThe open-access library of natural history literature shares images from its books: frontispieces, bindings, animals, plants and scientific art.
A math creator takes the rules everyone memorised in school, like the empty product or order of operations, and shows where they come from.
Telegram of the dayAn English-language feed pulling together official reports on M4.5+ earthquakes, volcanic ash and tsunami bulletins from USGS, volcano observatories, tsunami warning centres and VolcanoDiscovery.
Ant and termite colonies in huge custom enclosures: how they dig, build fungus gardens and share tiny ecosystems with other creatures.
Site of the dayAn interactive International Phonetic Alphabet chart: click a symbol to hear the sound and watch MRI and ultrasound footage of the tongue and lips as it's made.
TikTok of the dayAn Australian astrophysicist explains odd galaxies, the maths behind famous discoveries and surprising physics like scallops with telescope eyes.