Scary Study Reveals Spiders Can Hear You Shrieking From Across The Room!
The next time you shriek at the sight of a spider, be aware that the arachnid can hear you loud and clear from as far away as 10-feet! The surprising discovery by Cornell...
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Coral Vita Plans To Restore The World's Coral Reefs With Land-Based "Farms"
Coral reefs are one of the most diverse and important ecosystems on Earth. Not only do they provide food and habitats for the fish and seafood we eat, but they also shelt...
Harvard University's Octopus-Inspired Octobot is Adorable And Revolutionary
Robots have come a long way since ancient Greek mathematician, Archytas, released a steam-powered wooden dove dubbed “The Pigeon” in 350 B.C. However, the terminator-type...
Muggle Researchers Put The Science Of Harry Potter's World To The Test
Listen up Potterheads! Muggle student scientists from the U.K.’s University of Leicester have been researching some critical matters: do the spells and potions that Harry...
Leonardo Da Vinci's "Irrelevant" Scribbles Are The First Recorded Laws Of Friction
Legendary artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, who conducted the first systematic study of friction, has always been credited as the pioneer in Tribology. But while hi...
Hurricane Matthew Leaves A Trail Of Destruction All The Way From Haiti To North Carolina
The first clue that the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season would be an active one came in January, when Alex, a Category 1 hurricane, arrived six months before the season’s o...
Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners Used Molecules To Build Tiny Machines And Cars
On Wednesday, October 5, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating machines that are a thousand ti...
Whales Mourn Their Loved Ones, Just Like You And Me
Mourning the loss of a loved one was initially thought to be just a human characteristic. However, over the years, experts have observed similar behavior in terrestrial s...
Researchers Say Blood-Thirsty Brains Key To Evolution Of Human Intelligence
Researchers have long attributed the evolution of human intelligence to the size of the brain. It turns out that while a larger skull certainly helped, it was the extra b...
Video Of The Week — Letvision's BMW Letron Is Almost As Good As Optimus Prime
Turkish technology company Letvision recently revealed a working prototype of a real-life transformer that will make all Autobot and Decepticon fans swoon! The company sa...
The Great Frigatebird Is Like The Energizer Bunny — It Keeps Going And Going And. . .
The great frigatebird, a species of seabird found across the world’s tropical seas, has a 7 foot wingspan — the largest of any bird species its size. Past research had in...
September Ends With Rare Black Moon
Here is some exciting news for those living in the Western Hemisphere — today, September 30, marks the emergence of the black moon. While that may sound sinister and is e...
Iceland Combats Climate Change By Turning Carbon Dioxide To Stone
September is usually a month when the atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) are at their lowest levels in the northern hemisphere. That’s because plants suck...
The Extreme Bees That Thrive On The Edge Of An Active Volcano
Like most bees, the ground nesting Anthophora squammulosa, that are native to parts of North and Central America, are a solitary species. The females lay their eggs in li...
Stuntman Eddie Braun Completes Evel Knievel's Dream Canyon Rocket Jump
In 1974, American stuntman Evel Knievel attempted to cross Idaho’s Snake River Canyon aboard a steam-powered rocket. Unfortunately, a parachute deployed prematurely and c...
Guess What? We Have Already Used Up All Of Earth's Resources For 2016
Monday, August 8, was Earth Overshoot Day. Calculated annually by the environmental advocacy group, Global Footprint Network, it is the day when humanity has consumed all...
Can Solid Rain Help Alleviate The World's Water Woes?
Water, or rather the lack of it, is one of the most pressing issues of our times. Unprecedented droughts and growing populations have left many countries struggling to ke...
These Mysterious Lizards Bleed Green!
Any member of the five species of the Prasinohaema (Greek: “green blood”) skinks that that live on the island of New Guinea in the South West Pacific, would have been a s...
Video Of The Week - Rare Pallas's Cats Captured On Camera In Mongolia
The Pallas’s cat is a small-sized wild cat species that lives in the remote steppes and mountains of Central Asia. Excessive hunting of the animals that are coveted for t...
Georgia Tech's Teaching Assistant "Jill Watson" Turns Out To Be A Robot!
At the end of the spring semester in May, students taking Georgia Tech’s online Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence course received some stunning news. Jill Watson, o...
Norwegian Researchers Create Microscopic Pac-Man Game To Observe Microbes
It is said that the classics never die. Be it movies, books, or in this case, the ghost-gobbling game, Pac-Man. In its 36-year existence, the Pac-Man has undergone numero...
Dutch Scientists Declare "Martian" And "Lunar" Crops Safe For Earthlings
It may appear strange to hear that crops are making headlines. But this is no ordinary produce — these fruits and vegetables have been grown in simulated Martian and luna...
Pizza Hut Unveils The World's First Playable DJ Pizza Box
The world’s two largest pizza chains, Dominos and Pizza Hut, are constantly trying to come up with innovative gimmicks to retain existing customers and attract new ones....
It's Official! The Greenland Shark Is The Longest Living Vertebrate Known To Science
Scientists have long suspected that the elusive Greenland sharks lived for a long time. It turns out they were right! A new study has revealed that the world’s second lar...