Should You Eat Before or After You Exercise?
Whether it’s steady state vs. HIIT cardio or powerlifting vs. bodybuilding, everyone has an opinion when it comes to working out. One of the most hotly contested topics might be whether you should eat before or after you exercise. Well, science has found the answer. A group of researchers from the Universities of Bath, Birmingham,...
Gorilla That Was Born With A Lack Of Pigmentation On Her Fingers Is Surprising People
Intellectually, we know how closely related we are to the great apes, at least genetically. It’s another thing for the evidence to be clearly presented to us by nature, though. A gorilla named Anaka has strange pigmentation on one hand that is a truly eye-opening genetic glitch. Anaka is 6 years old and lives at...
When a Biology Student Gave Wasps Access to Colored Paper, They Made Rainbow Nests
I, for one, am not someone who will be easily – or ever – convinced that wasps are in any way lovable. That said, they can built some pretty-looking nests if you give them some colorful tools! https://www.instagram.com/p/B63sJ8CAGD0/ University of Florence biology major Mattia Menchetti came up with the idea: he would slowly fed a...
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NASA Scientists Releases First Findings by Solar Probe
Launched in 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached the fastest speeds ever achieved by a man-made vehicle. And that’s just the beginning of the all the amazing things it’s been doing as it zooms toward our sun. Details of the probe’s solar close-ups were recently published in the journal Nature. The observations were made as it...
Here’s How People Knew the Earth Rotated Before We Went into Space
It’s unsurprising, really, that people used to think the earth was flat. To the untrained (regular) eye, it feels like we live on a flat, motionless surface that stays safe and stationary underneath a spinning sun and stars. If someone came along and told you (the hypothetically scientifically illiterate) that you lived on a giant...
Most People Have No Idea What A Heart Attack Looks Like In Women
You might have heard over the past several years that there’s a sad lack of knowledge and attention to the fact that women’s heart attacks begin and progress differently from men’s. We’re all shown the “typical” shortness of breath, pain the left arm, and finally in the chest…but if you’re a woman who thinks that’s...
