New Stain-Proof Material Can Repel Virtually Any Liquid
Military leaders and laundry-plagued mothers both have reason to rejoice over an improvement in the development of liquid-repelling surfaces. For the first time, lab researchers have created a...
View ArticleBeijing Smog Could Be Making Its Way Over To California
No, I’m not talking about myself, although I am a Californian and I am suffering through the Biblically nasty Beijing Airpocalypse. Rather, I’m talking about actual residents of the U.S. West Coast,...
View ArticleTemperature Hits All-Time Record In Sydney
Temperatures in Sydney on Friday hit their highest levels since records began 150 years ago, after an Australian government agency warned of more frequent and intense heatwaves in the future.While a...
View ArticleFires From North Dakota's Oil Fields Are Visible From Space
There’s a new light in the night sky – and it’s North Dakota.Over the past 2 years, North Dakota has doubled its oil production to become the #2 producing state in the nation. And with this oil has...
View ArticleYou Can Eat That Burger As Long As you Exercise After
A high-fat meal may not be quite as bad for your body if you exercise shortly afterward, a small study from Japan suggests.The results show that walking and doing light resistance training one hour...
View ArticleScientists Are Taking An Academic Eye To Pop Music, And Here's Why
Since the rise of recordings and radio in the early twentieth century, music has been a constant and often integral part of American culture.Any comprehensive account of the history of the last one...
View ArticleComputer Scientists Are Working To Give Stephen Hawking Back His Voice
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has long relied on technology to help him connect with the outside world despite the degenerative motor neuron disease he has battled for the past 50 years.Whereas...
View ArticleScientists Just Found The Missing Mid-Sized Black Holes
Australian researchers have redefined the relationship between galaxies and their black holes, showing that a widely-accepted method for calculating the mass of smaller black holes was wrong.The...
View ArticleGirls Don't Actually Go Wild On Spring Break
This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license.The popular perception that college students are reaching new levels of self-indulgence...
View ArticleYou Might Be Able To Beat That Peanut Allergy
Most people with peanut allergies steer clear of the legume, but a new study from the National Institute of Health is suggesting that patients could some day do just the opposite.NIH’s National...
View ArticleThere's More To Life Than Being Happy
In September 1942, Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when...
View ArticleHealth-Conscious Westerners Devour Quinoa, While Poor Bolivians Can No Longer...
Not long ago, quinoa was just an obscure Peruvian grain you could only buy in wholefood shops. We struggled to pronounce it (it's keen-wa, not qui-no-a), yet it was feted by food lovers as a novel...
View ArticleWater Could Be The World's Next Biggest Market
In Uganda, a beer brewer is paying communities to protect wetlands in a bid to secure a steady supply of water for its businesses. In neighbouring Kenya, flower companies, ranchers and hotels are...
View ArticleThe Story Of A Farmer Who Turned His Back On Supermarket Big Shots To Stay...
Hollywood’s latest starlet is gazing enigmatically into the camera lens with her huge melting brown eyes, framed with lashes long enough to catch snowflakes. She radiates an air of serenity amid the...
View Article10 Fascinating Facts About Earth
1. Along with orbiting around the Sun at 66,600 mph, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 miles per hour. So you are simultaneously hurtling around the Sun at 66,600 mph while sitting...
View ArticleWhy America Performs Poorly On Nearly Every Measure Of Health
IT IS hardly news that America spends more on health care than any other country. Nor is it news that this money fails to make Americans healthy. But a new report from America’s Institute of Medicine...
View ArticleWhy So Many People Get The Flu In Winter
The 2012-2013 flu season is shaping up to be a doozy.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reported that during the first week of 2013, 7.3 percent of all deaths reported through their...
View ArticleA Breakdown Of What Exactly Is In Beijing's Filthy Air
China's landlocked capital of 20 million people has experienced record-breaking pollution over the last few days. The South China Morning Post reported that visits to Beijing Children's Hospital hit a...
View Article5 Famous Scientists Who Started Their Work As Teens
Not all of history’s most significant scientists were college graduates when they began their works. In fact, history is full of scientists who have shaped the world due to their work as teenagers.If...
View ArticleNavy Ship May Have Run Aground Because Of A Faulty Map
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An inaccurate map that mislocated a marine sanctuary may have caused a U.S. Navy minesweeper to run aground on a coral reef in the Philippines this week, the Navy said...
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