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Man Vs Anaconda
Deep in the steamy Amazonian jungle, half-hidden beneath the water’s surface, a reptile almost 28 feet long lies in wait for prey to stray within striking distance. When the target is near enough, the colossal creature will make a grabbing lunge with its jaws before rapidly wrapping its phenomenally powerful body around the victim. With each exhalation of breath, the snake’s coils will constrict tighter.
Continue reading...The 15 Million Year-Old Lake
Friday, January 23, 2009
Life forms from 15 million years ago may still be present on Earth if the discovery of a new lake 4km below the surface of the ice in east Antarctica is as fruitful as scientists believe it to be. Scientists believe that the water inside Lake Vostok could contain new lifeforms and possibly shed light on other planets.
Continue reading...How Russian Scientists Kept a Dog’s Severed Head Alive!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
image via Wikipedia Can a head live without a body? The answer should be simple: yes, but only for a little while. Scientists say that the brain continues to function for about two minutes after the heart stops. But can a lopped off head continue to survive after [...]
Continue reading...Physicists Create Universe Smaller Than a Marble
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Image from Pingnews At Lancaster University, they’re unraveling the secrets of how to build a universe. In fact, they have already formed one, or something very much like it. This scientific breakthrough lies in the bottom of a chamber no larger than your pinky finger, filled with helium [...]
Continue reading...1,000 Pound “Colossal” Squid Thawed in NZ
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Calimari-sicles for 10,000, please. Image from Hideki Saito Scientists from New Zealand have begun the process of thawing and dissecting a squid corpse that they’ve kept in a freezer for the past year. It is huge, weighing in at half a ton.
Continue reading...How Fast Can Evolution Move, Exactly?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
It’s always been a cornerstone of Darwinian theory that evolution moves at an achingly slow pace. So slow in fact, that us humans can’t notice it and have to examine the archaeological record to confirm it. Image from estelucy Recently, however, there have been some high-profile exceptions to that, [...]
Continue reading...Alligator Blood > Penicillin
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
It may be the case that the next time you stumble into the doctor’s office with the horrid bacterial illness of the season, instead of giving you the extract of a fungus, he’ll draw up a dram of bright red alligator blood, and let you wonder what [...]
Continue reading...Do You Really Want To Trust Scientists To Tell You Why Flirting Doesn’t Work?
Monday, March 31, 2008
In light of this item from the Daily Mail, telling us that the female flirt is doomed by the male mind, I ask you, isn’t this a bit like consulting a zookeeper about why your car has broken down? Image from ijerf on Flickr
Continue reading...Biofools
Monday, March 24, 2008
It would be great if biofuels provided a magic method for us to combat carbon emissions without changing our lifestyles, but sadly they don’t. Image via thoughts on global warming Impacts of adoption of biofuels on food prices are already well documented. Now scientists are
Continue reading...Are you a Chinese scientist? Do you frequently fail?
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Well worry no more, because the Chinese government has introduced an exciting new amnesty program for scientists who fail. I don’t know what used to happen to Chinese scientists who were unsuccessful. Perhaps they received a harshly worded letter and lost funding, perhaps they were beaten with rubber [...]
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
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