A group of researchers have discovered fossilized mosquito that is a first for the scientific community and sounds like something out of Jurassic Park. The researchers discovered a mosquito fossil that has traces of its last blood meal still in its abdomen. Prior to this discovery, fossils that were suspected to have been bloodsucking insects […]
Have ever sat mere yards from a herd of elephants as they drank at a watering hole? What about had one brush by just inches from you? Or then tried to photograph the whole thing? No? Well, it’s a good job Greg du Toit did, then.
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If you’ve ever floated a ping-pong ball atop the warm blast from a hair dryer, you’ll appreciate this video that endeavors to explain the physics behind how the same phenomenon occurs with jets of water.
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Dandelions have already been more generous to humans than we ingrates
deserve. While we spend our spring-times trying to stamp them out of our yards, many revere the weeds as a source of vitamins and minerals essential to a variety of physiological functions. Now, agricultural engineers are cultivating the dandelion for a new purpose….
Contrary to what you may have seen in such movies as Pixar’s otherwise extremely entertaining Finding Nemo, whales don’t spray water out of their blowholes. Further, the whale’s trachea doesn’t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale’s throat, in real life, they’d have simply been eaten.
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Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the dopamine-boosting compound in marijuana
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Tempra Technology is back, and after taking a look at this forward thinking company’s I.C. Can product many months ago, it is now time to see what’s next in the far from boring pipeline. Could there be a day when we say goodbye to traditional cooling and heating appliances altogether? Who knows, but it certainly doesn’t hurt to have a look.
Scientists recently discovered a new type of botulinum toxin (a.k.a. botox) that they believe is the deadliest substance known to man. Because they’ve yet to discover an antitoxin, researchers won’t publish the details of gene sequence due to security concerns—a first for the scientific community. Thank God.
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While NASA’s asteroid-capturing mission remains grounded from a lack of Congressional funding, a similar and equally ambitious ESA program is nearing fruition. In the coming months, the Rosetta spacecraft and its integrated Philae probe will become the first manmade objects to not only orbit an asteroid but land on it as well. Here’s how they’ll do it.
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To many of us, the government shutdown is inexplicable: a crazy situation, brought about a minority faction over a bill that’s already been passed into law. But for math professor Peter Turchin, it was entirely predicable.
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