Baby Tortoises Were Born on a Galapagos Island for the First Time in 100 Years
Here’s a nice, positive story in the midst of the seemingly-nonstop flow of awful news stories lately. Pinzon in the Galapagos Islands is home to tortoises that are on the endangered species list, but the good news is that for the first time in 100 years, baby tortoises are back! So why did it take...
It Was 65 Degrees in Antarctica Recently and Scientists Know Why
In my opinion, there are few things scarier in our world right now than the drastic climate change we’re seeing and how it affects places as far flung as Antarctica. So the news that the continent recently experienced its hottest day EVER is causing me even more anxiety. Yes, Argentina’s Esperanza Base, at the very...
A Scientist in Russia Injected Himself With 3.5-Million-Year-Old Bacteria
Well, this sure is an interesting headline, isn’t it? When I first heard about this story, I assumed this action was taken for some kind of test, but I’m wrong. Russian doctor Anatoli Brouchkov injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria because he believes it will help him live longer. https://twitter.com/curiositydotcom/status/785860021926014976 Dr. Brouchkov discovered the ancient bacteria...
New Immune Cell Discovered by Accident May Treat All Cancer
In what could be an incredible development in the world of scientific research and the long fight against cancer, a team of researchers from Cardiff University in the UK discovered a new immune cell that could be used to treat ALL kinds of cancers. The new immune T-cell was discovered by accident by the researchers...
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Penguins Have Been Documented Using the Same Speech Patterns as Humans for the First Time
It seems as if there have been more and more reports of different animals displaying increasingly human characteristics, like making and developing tools, but most of the instances have been in our closer genetic relatives. So it feels a bit off to say it’s not monkeys, but penguins, whose speech patterns could closely mirror those of...
NASA Animation Shows Oceans Draining and What’s Beneath the Sea We Never See
The majority of our planet–approximately three-fifths–lies beneath our vast oceans, including Earth’s longest mountain range and the land bridges early humans used to travel from one continent to another. Recently, planetary scientist James O’Donoghue remade a 2008 NASA video to show what could be revealed if all ocean water drained. From the Japanese space agency, JAXA, where...
