Smart videos for curious minds of all ages.
Cetaceans, such as beluga whales and dolphins, blow bubble rings, fast-spinning rings of air that they appear to play with. We happened upon this video after watching a suggestion about toroidal vortices by @dulemba.
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The Amazon River Dolphin, also called the boutu, boto, or bufeo, is the largest of the freshwater dolphins, and like all freshwater dolphins it is endangered because of hunting, human pressures, and degradation of hab...
Pods of killer whales [also known as orcas] inhabit the waters of every major ocean on Earth. Each family is able to survive thanks mainly to one member, its most knowledgeable hunter: the grandmother. These matriarch...
Ribbons of twisting smoke trails twirl in the air as an old British Hawker Sea Fury fighter aircraft flies over a runway in Ione, California. Dennis Sanders of Sanders Aeronautics pilots the plane as Elliot Seguin fil...
This pod of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) lives in the waters around the volcanic islands of Jeju, South Korea all year round. Although they are social creatures amongst themselves, seeing humans...
Two clouds rush toward each other and collide before dissipating in this installation by Mitchell F. Chan. Titled Something Something National Conversation (In 2 Characters Or Less), the crashing forms of water vapor ...
Next time you're on the swings, think about what it might be like if you were swinging on the moon, free from air resistance. AP Physics teacher Jared Keester had that in mind during this experiment: Swing jumping wit...
Dolphins are well-known for being intelligent creatures... In fact, they're one of the smartest species on the planet. These cetaceans can communicate, cooperate, empathize, understand language, pass along their knowl...
A vortex of bubbles forms like a lasso in the waters off the coast of Socorro Island, where cold California currents collide with warm equatorial waters. It's a seasonal phenomenon in Mexico's "little Galápagos", appr...
Norwegian orcas "corral, stun, and devour" silver herring using a method called carousel feeding, a cooperative approach that's very similar to "sheepdogs working a flock". From Wikipedia: An individual or small g...
If you're looking to make a simple vortex canon for shooting smoke rings across the room, you'll like this DIY video by Dave Hax. All you'll need is an empty plastic bottle, a balloon, and an incense stick, preferably...
