Exploding Plants, Maine Coons, & Some Love For The Tugs

Welcome back to Science Goes Boom, where we explain stuff, create stuff, and blow up stuff. This week let’s begin our journey at the top of the world, on a floating hunk of ice, with the Navy shooting torpedoes underneath the camp:

When plants go boom:

Using salt and science to save lives, one Phase Change Material at a time:

Of course the first domestic cat brought to America was the largest in the world. It’s how America rolls:

Beside every great ship is a tiny little ship pushing it around telling it where to go. Let’s get some R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the tug boats:

A few instances of silly evolutionary dogma at the end of this one, but they’re far overshadowed by the intricacies of God’s design. An inside look at an irreducibly complex process, intelligently designed, like they all are:

A brief, oversimplified history of the Cold War, and the science of surface-to-air missiles:

In round one, The Backyard Scientist’s lava beat acid, but can he beat Science Bob’s lasers?

And finally, I recently featured a guy who built his own castle by hand. If you think that was over-engineered, check out the most elaborate, beautiful chicken coop known to man:

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