What makes adult sized humans go gaga and coo coo and ooh ooh when they see a little baby? Their adorable cuteness! But are babies really that cute to make people forget how to speak? They are! And it’s scientifically proven. ASAP Science says we love round faces, big eyes, protruding cheeks, big forehead and a round body. Yep, baby features. Anytime you put that together—whether in cars or animals—we like it a little bit more.
Just like the CPU in your computer, the human brain has an optimal temperature where it runs best. But unlike a computer’s CPU, there’s no built-in fan to chill the brain when it starts to run hot. Which is why researchers now believe that yawning is actually the body’s physiological way of keeping the brain nice and cool.
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We already know that figure skaters’ bodies undergo quite a bit of stress during their routines—and we have the pics to prove it
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The Olympics are coming! The Olympics are coming! And even if it’s only the Winter Olympics, it’s still fun to see countries who know nothing about each other put on colorful spandex to beat each other up for medals. But did you know that the gold medal is actually made from silver? Or that the bronze medal is only valued at 4 bucks? Watch and learn some other Olympic facts in the video above.
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Those few precious days off you have during the holidays are best spent taxing your brain as little as possible. But who says you can’t learn something even when away from work or school? If you’re lacking a fireplace to curl up next to, this wonderful video from AsapSCIENCE will keep you cozy while educating you on the science of how a cracking fire actually works.
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Need an easy way to gross yourself out? Watch this video that describes six different parasites by Asap Science. You have worms that create a nest around your butt hole, parasites that take over the tongue of a fish, ants that can become zombies and a whole lotta other scariness. What’s least comforting is how unavoidable it all seems. The littlest things can eventually be the most damaging. [AsapSCIENCE]
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Your computer can be hacked. Your phone can get hacked. Your e-mail account. Your Facebook account. And even… your brain. AsapSCIENCE explains how we’re coming up with ways to use technology—special lasers!—to hack our brains.
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Though we may think we pump out roses when it’s go time on the ivory throne, nobody in their right mind would actually want to keep those roses around. So flush them away and down the magical toilet they go! But where do they go? To the vague destination of the sewers. And then where? To the ocean? To the city "river"? To anywhere that’s away from here? AsapScience explains the cycle of poop, from your bowels into the system with condoms and pebbles through bacteria and sludge into fertilizer for more poop. [AsapScience]
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Because Bill Nye explains the world better than even experiencing it yourself, here’s our childhood maestro of science explaining how we could possibly stop an asteroid from destroying Earth. Giant bombs, huge rockets and even freaking lasers probably can’t stop it. And even if they could stop it, we might not be able to build them. So, uh, yeah.
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In response to that one debate you had in 8th grade health class that ended abruptly because there wasn’t nearly enough coffee or cigarettes in the teacher’s lounge to put up with that crap, and really, Jesus Christ, ASAP Science has attempted to answer who has it worse: women in child birth, or men who have been kicked in the junk. More »
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