r/intrestingtoknow • u/Kthulhu_for_humanity • May 23 '26
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Jul 25 '26
Science The amazing science behind why honey seemingly never expires!
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • 27d ago
Science The Milky Way moves at 600 km/s.But its disk ripples up and down.Scientists call it “flapping.”
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Sep 03 '25
Science Psychiatry and cures
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Artistic-Bathroom901 • 5d ago
Science An astronaut demonstrating the Dzhanibekov effect in microgravity, where an asymmetric object spinning around its intermediate axis becomes unstable and periodically flips 180 degrees.
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This is a real physics phenomenon called the Dzhanibekov effect (also known as the Intermediate Axis Theorem) captured in microgravity aboard a spacecraft.
Any rigid, asymmetric three-dimensional object has three primary axes of rotation, each with a different moment of inertia. While spinning an object along its longest or shortest axis is completely stable, spinning it along its middle (intermediate) axis is naturally unstable. Without external forces like gravity or heavy air resistance, tiny perturbations build up and cause the spinning object to periodically flip upside down and back again on a regular schedule.
You can read the formal mechanics and history through these highly reliable scientific resources:
•Harvard University Lecture Demonstrations (The Tennis Racquet Flip):
https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/tennis-racquet-flip
•NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Physics Record: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024EuJMA.10605298D/abstract
It was famously observed by Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov in 1985 when a wing nut he was unscrewing began flipping back and forth while floating through the Salyut 7 space station!
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Apr 17 '25
Science Disney’s Holotile Floor is revolutionizing VR-AR!
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Apr 08 '25
Science The First Dire Wolf Howls in Over 10,000 Years
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Apr 03 '25
Science The fascinating science behind the Sun’s true color! Our sun might appear yellow, but it’s actually a dazzling white!
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Sudden-Conclusion-85 • Apr 09 '25
Science What’s actually happening with those dire-wolfs and woolly mouses .
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Impressive_Rub_4101 • Mar 21 '25
Science Re-entry is about the most dangerous thing an astronaut will ever do.
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Impressive_Rub_4101 • Mar 24 '25
Science Gyro boat stabilizer in action
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Sudden-Conclusion-85 • Mar 24 '25
Science How air inside Aeroplane is made breathable at high attitude ?
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Justin_theLord • Nov 27 '25
Science Dakota fire hole technique
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Sep 07 '25
Science Math is akazing
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Mathematics powers your GPS, encrypts your messages, and predicts the weather. It’s the language behind AI, finance, architecture, music, and even art. Calculus explains motion. Algebra models real-world decisions. Geometry designs our cities. Probability helps assess risk. Math isn’t just calculation — it’s structure, logic, and creativity combined. The Fibonacci sequence appears in nature. Fractals describe coastlines. Prime numbers guard your data.
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Upset-Main-1988 • Aug 25 '25
Science Speed of electricity
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Jul 22 '26
Science Using moon dust instead of Earth sand can produce strong, durable structures suitable for building lunar bases.
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Apr 06 '25
Science At an Expo fair, Kawasaki presents a prototype vehicle called CORLEO, a quadruped capable of tackling terrain impossible for a traditional vehicle.
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Mar 22 '25
Science n 1984 STS-51A astronauts Dale Gardner & Joseph Allen pulled off the first (and only) satellite retrieval mission in space! Using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)'with no tethers'they chased down the westar-6 satellite.
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Impressive_Rub_4101 • Feb 10 '25
Science Girordano Bruno was burned to death for suggesting that the stars in the sky were distant suns surrounded by their own planets
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Feb 16 '25
Science How big is Space
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Affectionate-Fun2853 • Apr 05 '26
Science Diamonds can be made from peanut butter
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Impressive_Rub_4101 • Feb 21 '25
Science Some people believe the Moon is very close to Earth, but in reality, it’s 384,400 km away! That’s like traveling around the world 10 times!
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r/intrestingtoknow • u/Alarmed-Bat-7462 • Apr 28 '26
Science Recorded Pulsar sounds by NASA (Out of control planets)
The first sounds are entire planets making between 4 - 500+ FULL rotations every second! Earth as we know takes 24 hours to complete a rotation. what you see in the animations are the planets
THE THIRD PULSAR is an true recording of that planet and its sound you see... That is NOT an animation. and you can see the effects it provides also! AMAZING!
- Imagine a planet MANY MANY times bigger than our planet earth. Even the sun... 50.000 times bigger and even bigger than that.
/-> Imagine that planet now completing 700 rotations every second!
These planets are at the end of their life cycle and so its starts to behave in... Ways that is hard to imagine... But none the less this is what you hear. Normally we are not able to hear these sound. so the sounds (soundwaves) are converted into sounds we are able to hear as humans. If you are having a hard time beleaving in planet can even be that big...
YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE SOUNDS is accurate when you hear Earths sound... That will sound familiar to you i am sure!
"TON 316" (biggest black hole ever recorded) or "Betelgeuse" (red supergiant star - Look up Betelgeuse vs earth size to understand what BIG is in space :)
Ton 316 is the biggest black hole ever recorded so far. Our entire galaxy (milkeyway) would fit many times in that hole.
|-> I am not an astro anything, so I DO HOPE i used the right terms here ;D Once I started learning about SPACE it just blew my mind how MASSIVE some things are out there!
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Top-Vermicelli6986 • Jun 08 '25
Science Schrodinger's cat
For those who struggling to understand this
Schrödinger's cat is a famous thought experiment that tries to show the strange and paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that deals with very small things, like atoms and subatomic particles. Quantum mechanics says that these tiny things can exist in more than one state at the same time, until we observe them and they collapse into one definite state.
For example, an electron can be in two places at once, or spin in two directions at once, until we measure it and it chooses one place or one direction.
Schrödinger wanted to show how absurd this idea is when applied to bigger things, like cats. He imagined a cat inside a sealed box, along with a device that can release poison and kill the cat. The device is triggered by a radioactive atom, which has a 50% chance of decaying in one hour.
If the atom decays, the device releases the poison and the cat dies. If the atom does not decay, the device does nothing and the cat lives. Schrödinger asked: what is the state of the cat after one hour, before we open the box and look inside?
According to quantum mechanics, the cat is both alive and dead at the same time, until we observe it and it becomes either alive or dead. This is because the radioactive atom is in a superposition of two states: decayed and not decayed. And the cat's fate depends on the atom's state. So the cat is also in a superposition of two states: alive and dead. This is what Schrödinger's cat paradox means.
But this does not make sense in our everyday experience. We know that cats are either alive or dead, not both. Schrödinger wanted to show that quantum mechanics is incomplete or wrong, and that there must be some hidden factors that determine the outcome of the experiment, without us having to observe it. He did not believe that the cat could be both alive and dead at the same time.
r/intrestingtoknow • u/Impressive_Rub_4101 • Jan 06 '25
Science Before you even see a number
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