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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

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The Great Lab Escape

Lab-life Academia Research
20 hours ago 15.6K views 0 shares
The Great Lab Escape
FREEDOM! Sweet, glorious freedom! That rare moment when your experiments actually work on the first try, your samples don't explode, and your advisor isn't lurking behind you with more tasks. It's like breaking the chains of scientific servitude! The lab clock typically runs on its own twisted dimension where 5 minutes = 3 hours, but occasionally—just occasionally—the universe grants you mercy. Escaping an hour early feels like you've discovered a wormhole in spacetime itself. Scientists in the wild, experiencing sunlight before sunset? Practically a cryptid sighting!

The Incomplete Guide To Research Visualization Hell

Academia Research Tech Science Lab-life
14 hours ago 13.0K views 0 shares
The Incomplete Guide To Research Visualization Hell
The scientific community's collective trauma captured in one slide. Notice how Excel tops the list despite being the data visualization equivalent of performing surgery with a butter knife. Meanwhile, researchers worldwide are nodding in painful recognition at "Micosoft" Excel's typo—because nothing says "academic publishing" like discovering a spelling error right after submission. The real comedy here is that this list stops at 7 items while promising 10. Just like when your advisor promises funding for your entire PhD but mysteriously disappears after year two. Every grad student knows that feeling of staring at Excel's default rainbow color scheme wondering where their scientific career went wrong.

Cold Fusion? The Cat's Not Buying It

Physics Science Chemistry
14 hours ago 12.9K views 0 shares
Cold Fusion? The Cat's Not Buying It
The face you make when someone suggests cold fusion is happening at 400°C. That's like claiming your cat can solve differential equations because it knocked your calculator off the desk. Cold fusion was supposed to be the energy holy grail - nuclear fusion at room temperature! Instead, we got decades of questionable experiments, career implosions, and enough scientific controversy to fuel a small power plant. The only thing "cold" about it is the reception from the physics community after the 1989 Fleischmann-Pons debacle. That cat knows what's up - those temperatures are for conventional chemistry, not breaking atomic nuclei apart. Nice try, pseudoscience!

Pi With A Quantum Twist

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14 hours ago 12.5K views 0 shares
Pi With A Quantum Twist
The mathematical mic drop heard 'round the physics department! When someone says "you can't write π as a fraction," most math enthusiasts would nod in agreement since π is famously irrational. But then our quantum physics rebel steps in with π = h/2ℏ, using Planck's constant (h) and the reduced Planck constant (ℏ = h/2π). It's technically correct—the best kind of correct! She's essentially writing π as π = π, but with extra steps and quantum swagger. The look of absolute rage on the first person's face is what happens when someone technically wins an argument using the very definition they were arguing against.

The Fourier Transform Fanatic

Math Physics Engineering Science Research
13 hours ago 12.3K views 0 shares
The Fourier Transform Fanatic
When someone suggests literally any problem-solving approach, mathematicians and physicists be like: "Nah, I'd Fourier transform." The escalating frustration of seeing every single type of Fourier transform listed is pure mathematical trauma in action. From waves to electromagnetics, quantum to spectral analysis—it's the mathematical equivalent of that friend who only knows one recipe but insists on cooking it six different ways. By the time we hit "Fourier FUCKING transform," you can practically feel the despair of someone who's spent too many sleepless nights converting between time and frequency domains. It's the universal hammer that makes everything look like a nail... a very complex, sinusoidal nail.

When Safety Factors Meet Missiles

Engineering
13 hours ago 12.1K views 0 shares
When Safety Factors Meet Missiles
Civil engineers: "We designed this bridge to withstand 120 mph winds, 8.0 earthquakes, and 100-year floods." Military engineers: "Cute. Watch this." That moment when you realize your structural calculations never included the "getting hit by a missile" variable. Turns out that fancy safety factor of 1.5 doesn't quite cover ballistic explosives. Back to the drawing board—if you can find it in the rubble.

The Data Scientist's Desperate Crawl

Tech Research Science Academia
13 hours ago 11.8K views 0 shares
The Data Scientist's Desperate Crawl
Ever had that moment when your Python code crashes and suddenly your beautiful data visualizations vanish into the void? That's every data scientist dropping to their knees when Matplotlib decides to throw a tantrum! Without those sweet, sweet plots, your data is just a boring spreadsheet of numbers. The dependency is REAL. Scientists will literally crawl through digital darkness searching for their precious visualization library because raw data without pretty graphs might as well be hieroglyphics!

I Don't Understand Salt

Chemistry Science
15 hours ago 11.1K views 0 shares
I Don't Understand Salt
The periodic table just went nuclear with this one! What we're witnessing is the chemical formula for table salt (NaCl) being physically assembled by two kids. One kid holds "Na" (sodium), another brandishes "e" (electron), while "Cl" (chlorine) runs for dear life in the foreground. It's basically ionic bonding if it were directed by Michael Bay. The sodium is desperately trying to donate its electron to chlorine to achieve that sweet, sweet noble gas configuration. Chemistry students everywhere are having flashbacks to electron transfer diagrams while simultaneously questioning their life choices.

It's A Chemistree

Chemistry Biology Science
21 hours ago 11.1K views 0 shares
It's A Chemistree
Nature's molecular modeling software running at full capacity here. The branches of this tree perfectly mimic organic compound structures, complete with what appears to be benzene rings and carbon chains. Somewhere a structural chemist is looking at this and thinking "I could publish a paper on this tree." Meanwhile, botanists are just calling it "a tree" like uncultured savages.

Damn These Red Dwarfs

Astronomy Universe Science
15 hours ago 11.0K views 0 shares
Damn These Red Dwarfs
The cosmic irony of red dwarf stars in one perfect meme. These stars act like that one friend who asks why nobody likes them, then immediately demonstrates exactly why. Red dwarfs are the universe's biggest hypocrites—wondering why scientists don't consider them good candidates for hosting life while simultaneously unleashing apocalyptic flares that would strip any nearby planet faster than a freshman strips electrons from sodium. The kicker? These temperamental little stars live for trillions of years, giving them plenty of time to repeatedly sterilize any planet unfortunate enough to orbit them. Talk about a toxic relationship!

When You Don't Know How It Works

Ai Tech
21 hours ago 11.0K views 0 shares
When You Don't Know How It Works
The perfect metaphor for current AI development. Top tech CEOs confidently presenting AI systems while having approximately the same understanding of neural networks as my coffee maker has of thermodynamics. The Manhattan Project comparison is particularly apt - except Oppenheimer at least knew he was "become death, destroyer of worlds." Meanwhile, today's tech bros are like "let's see what this red button does" with potentially civilization-altering technology. Just another Tuesday in Silicon Valley.

Humans: Is It Fine If We Burn Fossil Fuels?

Science
14 hours ago 10.8K views 0 shares
Humans: Is It Fine If We Burn Fossil Fuels?
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