Want to know what it takes to get a PhD? Look no further.
What?
Girls take birth control. Girls then pee out unmetabolized estrogens from birth control. Pee goes to water treatment plant, estrogens not treated, male fish become female fish.
– Altzul
So Sticky
Little things stick together. Here's a slightly easier way to calculate their stickiness.
– Born2bwire
That’s Unfortunate
Nanoparticles are weird and I accidentally made a bomb and electrocuted myself.
-M33
Meditation Just Got More Interesting
People trying meditation for the first time get aroused.
– PainMatrix
You Play With Poop?
We can take random pieces of bacterial DNA from beaver poop and put them into other bacteria to discover new things, like how to break wood down into biofuels. Yes, I had to dissect dead beavers and handle their poop.
– Geneius
Don’t Mess With Ours
When I get rid of this gene, it messes the brain up. A lot.
– NeuroscienceNerd
Star Trek For The Win!
Computer AI systems can learn to operate a warp drive and automatically build an instructional system to train people how to do it. My dissertation is probably the only one in existence to reference the Star Trek technical manual.
– DrBiometrics
TL;DR
Does music express emotions or just elicit them? Read the next 200 pages to not find out.
– Welldogmycats
Even We Knew That
Sand washes away, don't build important stuff on it
– Zoidy
We Need Neil Degrasse Tyson To Explain This
I can make models of galaxies in a computer, but I can't explain why they don't act like real ones. Even if I bash them together or stir them around.
– McMillan_Astro
Does Antimatter Matter?
You can make antimatter move in strange ways if you set your equipment up wrong.
– DrTBag
You Don’t Say
My experimental drug does NOT cure addiction.
– NotSoCleverPork
You Better Find Out If It Does
Two proteins touch each other in a specific place in the developing heart. No idea if it's important for anything.
– Penguinpaige
How Do Magnets Work?
Making new magnets from old magnets because we're running out of magnets.
– IAmAHiggsBoson
We Learned Just As Much As You
Inpatients with schizophrenia are happier and socialize more in the context of a music listening group. It was obvious before we began the project and we learned nothing.
– Wouldyestap
Don’t Worry, Nobody Has Seen Him
There are amoebas living in volcanos, but I never captured Bigfoot on film (I tried).
– RNAPII
Maybe It Does. Maybe It Doesn’t
This protein looks like it might contribute to asthma. Oh, turns out it probably doesn't.
– Bear_Ear_Fritters
Better Keep An Eye On That
I crunch numbers using a supercomputer in the hopes of ensuring a fusion reactor in France doesn't get fried on the inside.
– PhysicsFornicator
We Can’t Believe They Did Either
People sometimes think about animals as if they're people. People like those animals a little more than regular animals. Except when they don't. I can't believe they gave me a PhD.
– too_many_mangos
How Is That Possible?
Why does a coffee stain looks the way it is, and how you can use it to make anti-laser glasses.
– Stockholm-Syndrom