The history of life in a single day
Man discovering fire seems so long ago that it’s almost at the dawn of time. In reality, our time on Earth is barely a blink in the planet’s history. But […]
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Watch an asteroid fly-by this afternoon
The lumpy, peanut-like 4179 Toutatis will pass within 37 million miles of the Earth this afternoon, and Slooh is all over it. Toutatis passes us by about once every four years, […]
Glow on
You might find yourself thinking the lights on Michigan Avenue or your own street a pretty darn lovely this time of year. But they can’t hold a candle to the […]
Shape-shifting gel could change how doctors administer drugs
Imagine pouring a liquid gel into a wound that solidifies, stays where you pour it, and slowly dispatches drugs to the area. It wasn’t what researchers at Cornell University were going for, but […]
One more thing you lose with age
Enjoy that delicious holiday food now, because eventually it may just be a reminder of what a honey baked ham used to taste like. And while that prospect is pretty […]
Extroverted gorillas live longer
Those popular kids may be onto something. Researchers at American zoos spent the last 18 years watching their resident gorillas for certain trends. They observed who was outgoing and playful […]
Killer catfish find a new snack
What better way to start your Friday than with some good, old-fashioned carnage? This time, it’s at the hands (or rather, fins) of giant catfish. The 1 to 1.5-meter-long European […]
Could this be the earliest dinosaur?
Nyasasaurus isn’t a new discovery, but this is the first time it’s been considered a dinosaur. Bits of the small dino were discovered in the 1930’s in Tanzania’s Manda Beds and […]
MIT makes a tiny Transformer
No, not a power converter. We’re talking about Optimus Prime and the like. Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have created a tiny robot that assembles itself into […]
Voyager 1 is almost in interstellar space
Very soon, space probe Voyager 1 will be probing outside our solar system. According to the team at NASA, the probe is sending back some very strange data from its […]
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