stem.io: Why does a nice noise get filed under danger?
Read this on the web The band drops out for a second and a few thousand strangers carry the line on their own. You are not even singing. The hair on your...
stem.io: Why does an onion only attack you once you cut it?
Read this on the web You pick up a knife, halve an onion, and start slicing. The whole one sat in a bowl on the counter all week and never bothered anybody....
stem.io: Why is the Sun's atmosphere invisible until it's hidden?
Read this on the web The sky dims to a strange steel-gray at noon, the air cools, and a crowd of strangers goes quiet at once. Then the last sliver of Sun...
stem.io: How does a speck light up the whole sky?
Read this on the web You're lying on a blanket in a dark field in August, eyes finally adjusted to the night. A thin bright line rips across the sky and is...
stem.io: Why can the lizard do it and the strongest person alive cannot?
Read this on the web On a movie screen, a man in a red suit presses his bare palms flat against a glass skyscraper and walks straight up, forty floors above...
stem.io: Can a ball really leave faster than the foot that kicked it?
Yes, and by a lot. The physics is just unfair.