The Science Behind Unseen Phenomena
During the early 1930s, Duke University went against the grain and opened a parapsychology lab. J.B. Rhine, who actually coined the term parapsychology, along with his colleagues sought to uncover the...
View ArticleFlight School
If it looks like a duck and flies like a duck, it must take off like a duck. Paleontologists long speculated that this was the case for pterosaurs, but new research shows…
View ArticleHow Long Would it Take Piranhas to Eat a Person?
After a trip to the Amazon jungle, President Teddy Roosevelt famously reported seeing a pack of piranhas devour a cow in a few minutes. It must have been a very large school…
View ArticleWhy Does Organic Milk Have a Longer Shelf Life Than The Regular Kind?
It all has to do with where the cow was milked. "Organic milk often has to travel thousands of miles to reach distribution points," says Dean Sommer, a cheese and food…
View ArticleFlight of the Navigator
Photographed from an ultra-light plane last December, these whooping cranes are being taught to fly south for the winter. Almost completely wiped out by 1940, there are now…
View ArticleRobotic RoShamBo
In this photo (See it bigger!) Bristol Elumotion Robotic Torso 1, or BERTI, takes time to play rock-paper-scissors at London's Science Museum in February, while on a…
View ArticleIs It True That Birds Can't Fart?
It's not that they can't. They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability…
View ArticleWhat Do My Eyes Do While I'm Sleeping?
When your head hits the pillow, your eyes still function. "But they can only sense light versus dark," says physician Michael Breus, a clinical psychologist who founded …
View ArticleFirst Hi-Res Picture of a Virus's Shell
After three years of piecing together hundreds of individual x-ray images, researchers were able to produce the first high-resolution picture of the five million atoms that make up a virus's...
View ArticleFYI: How Long Would It Take Piranhas To Eat A Person?
After a trip to the Amazon jungle, President Teddy Roosevelt famously reported seeing a pack of piranhas devour a cow in a few minutes. It must have been a very large…
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