Science Highlights

Astronaut Bruce McCandless gets super-high...and we've got the photos to prove it.

Huffington Post Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria questions why women are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.

Learn about Hydraulics in this educational video from dizzo95.

TenMarks teaches you how to add using clock fractions.

HuffPost Science correspondent Cara Santa Maria discusses the ever-growing problem of space junk.

HuffPost Science Correspondent Cara Santa Maria details scientific attempts at quantifying human attractiveness, including facial beauty, ideal proportions, and whether or not "gaydar" can be measured.

Oklahoma woman learns the hard way why Jack Horkheimer says "keep looking up."

This zoom sequence starts with a wide-field view of the rather empty region of sky around the constellation of Aquarius. As we close in we can see the faint ring shape of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), one of the closest planetary nebulae to the Earth. In the final sequence we see a new image of the Helix taken in infrared light with the VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Did you know that the brain has a joke center? Here are 9 other curious facts about your gray matter.

Watch How To Understand Venus from the world's leading how to specialist. This guide will give you useful instructions to guarantee you get good at solar system.

In the kitchen with no time to spare? Go ahead and microwave those eggs! Just be careful that you know the science behind doing it correctly or you're going to make a big mess (and maybe ruin your microwave).

From NASA: In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average. (Data source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Visualization credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)

Learn about The Brain and Central Nervous System in this educational video from dizzo95.

Nuclear Fusion Reactor - Spacecraft Propulsion