The word science is derived from Latin “scientia” meaning knowledge. There are two distinctive definitions of science. The older of the two states that science is a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied.
The contemporary definition is that it is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.
From the classical antiquity and medieval science providing foundations for scientific method to the present day, science has been linked to a broad specter of branches until it became an all encompassing term with the definition given above.
The ever growing evolution of science in general has produced various branches or fields of expertise. The two major categories are natural and social science. The category of formal science is reserved for mathematics because it has certain elements of both natural and social categories but does not fit in either.
The documentaries and video materials complied in this category are concerned with all scientific matters, from the philosophy of science to the fringe and junk science.
Is it possible that the days of this planet are all but spent? Is the evacuation of the entire planet the only salvation of mankind? The answers to these questions are given in the documentary about the technological advance and the future plans that will enable planet scale evacuation.
The ever lingering question of the possibility of the eternal life is expected to be answered in recent future. To learn how humanity is about to defeat death, we will investigate the plans to grow replacement parts of the body in the laboratory, microscopic robots that could wipe out deadly diseases, and the possibility that aging itself may be reversed by taking a page from one of history’s darkest legends. A number of scientists, doctors, geneticists and nanotech experts-many with impeccable academic credentials insist that such a thing is possible. Find out what scientific methods and breakthroughs are behind this incredible claim. Will the gift of eternal life be finally given to mankind?
What is the quantum world? It is the world that is smaller than an atom. Things at this scale don’t behave the same way as objects on the scale that we can see.Is the quantum realm real? In ph...
Math is an integral part of live. You might not know it, you might not see it, but math has an impact on everything we do in life. And everything that has happened in the past several years.This...
How much do you know about the human body? The story of a human life is a long and complex one. It starts with the first cry after birth, and ends with a final breath.What happens in your body f...
What happens when you go to sleep? Well, that is an interesting question. We all know we dream when we go to sleep. But what happens with our mind?We spend one third of our lives sleeping. And ever...
Do we live in a virtual reality? Is the universe emerging from an information processing system? And we can tell it? Can you hack the system and change reality?Those are all questions that the s...
The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, they compromise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws an...
Forensic science, or sometimes referred to as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws. Usually, forensic science comes at use during criminal...
The human brain is the command center for the human nervous system. The purpose of the brain is to receive signals from the body’s sensory organs and outputs information to...
A couple of thousand years ago, China closely guarded the secret of how to make silk and raise silkworms. The reason was simple. Silk made up most of the wealth of China. The...
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken thousands of incredible and inspiring images in the name of science. Yet, the one taken back in 1995 is the most important one.Most of us...
The race to the Moon marked the battle between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1960s. It was right in the middle of the Cold War.The United States were the firs...
The definition of lust is a strong sexual desire. It is a psychological force producing intense desire for an object, or circumstance fulfilling the emotion. Lust can take an...
A Venn diagram is a diagram showing all possible logical relations between a finite collection of different sets. They depict elements as points in the plane, and sets as reg...
Greg Foot takes you on a scientific adventure diving down into the deep dark ocean. The documentary starts on the deck of the Baseline Explorer, and from there you go into th...
The Fibonacci sequence is one of the most famous formulas in mathematics. Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two numbers that precede it.Therefore, the sequence go...
Gravity or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy, are brought toward one another. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects. G...
Our brain contains billions of nerve cells arranged in patterns that coordinate thought, emotion, behavior, movement, and sensation. All parts of the brain work together, but ...
Marino Morikawa is a special person. He used his PhD degree to clean his childhood lake. When he came back to the Cascajo wetlands in 2010, his father told him that they were...
Space nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases. The term was originally used to describe any diffuse astronomical object, including ...
Laboratories serve as a way to learn more about bacteria, viruses, and other dangerous forms that can alternate our life. In order to find a way to prevent and fight off viru...
The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all forms of matter and energy.That is the simplest way to describe the unive...
How many times have you seen superheroes do amazing things in movies, and thought, WOW, I want to be able to do that as well.Well, sadly, these fiction superpowers are exactly...
When it comes to innovations and science, the Islamic world is rarely mentioned. In fact, we rarely think that the Islamic World has given us many firsts.But the reality is q...
LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory with a purpose to detect cosmic gravitational wave...
William Maillis is one of the youngest people to graduate from a public high school. He did it at the age of 9. When he was just five years old, he was able to solve circumfe...
Has hunger ever changed your mood? If the answer is yes, you know that what we eat, or do not eat, directly affects our mental health.Our belly and brain are physically and bi...
The human body is made of between 55% and 60% water. That is the adult body. Children have higher water percentage.About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered. Oceans ...
In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity. While there is no complete quantum field theory of gr...
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. He is known mostly for his Pythagoras theorem, which can be ap...
The Mandela Effect, or how your mind is playing tricks on you is a popular topic among science people. Simply put, the effect is when a large group of people misremember the ...
In the early days of spaceflight, if NASA needed to plot a rocket’s path or confirm a computer’s calculations, they asked Katherine Johnson to do it. She is known as “the h...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson is known for his debunking. After all, he was the one debunking astrology. He is one of the most famous scientists, and he tries to explain everything in ...
In the past few years, NASA has been in the center of attention. The National Space administration managed to launch a new mission on Mars. Project InSight successfully lande...
In the past few years, TV shows and movies like Flash and other superheroes have changed the way we perceive the world. One of the core elements of the Flash TV show is the m...
Everything in life can be solved with mathematics. Yes, that is true, every problem can be solved using a math equation. Dating back to ancient times, people and philosophers ...
Cryotherapy started as a scientific method for prolonging life. People, and scientists, are always looking for a way to “cheat death” and live longer.And while using tech...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the most famous astrophysicist, authors, and science communicators. In the past several years, he has rose to prominence as he has weigh in on a...
Math has always been the driving force behind evolution. Math is one of the oldest subjects, and the building block of science, physics, and astronomy, and much more.What are...
Mars has become the next frontier for science for many years now. After we’ve landed on the Moon, Mars became the logical step forward.And since that moment, we’ve been t...
Most of us drink carbonated drinks on a daily basis. Be it carbonated water, or any other carbonated beverage. Some say carbonated drinks are bad for you and your health, but...
Pythagoras has been widely regarded as the first true mathematician. He established the Pythagorean school, whose doctrine was that mathematics ruled the universe and their m...
The human brain is the largest brain of all vertebrates relative to body size. It weighs about 3.3lbs, and makes up about 2% of our body weight. Yet, while it seems so sma...
In 1951, Solomon Asch conducted an experiment in order to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform.The results o...
What is a time loop? It is a plot device in which periods of time are repeated and re-experienced by the characters, and there is often some hope of breaking out of the cycle...
In the field of psychology, the Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority. In simple terms, people that are no...
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics. The goal of his mechanic was to ...
Is there anything as infinity? Or is our universe infinite? How far does our space and universe spreads? There is never an answer how far the universe spreads. But science...
There have been inventions that have changed our world. Some of the things we have nowadays seemed like mission impossible just a hundred years ago. For example, take smar...
No, we cannot get struck by lighting and become the Flash. That happens only comic books and on television. But there are ways that man can travel faster than the speed of light....
Just imagine how much the world has changed in the past 300 years. The first industrial revolution started in 1712 when Thomas Newcomen invented the first productive steam en...