It Turns out That Plants Scream When They’re Stressed – We Just Can’t Hear Them
Bad news for all of those vegans and vegetarians out there who choose the lifestyle out of kindness – it turns out that plants get majorly stressed when their well-being is threatened, too. In fact, a new study has found that some plants emit “ultrasonic clicks” outside the normal range of human hearing when they’re...
Napkin Ring Problem Doesn’t Seem Like It’s Possible — Here’s How It Works
Let’s begin with this mind-blower: If you cored an orange, and cored the earth, and the remaining rings were the same height, they would have very different diameters, but the same volume. Say what? https://www.instagram.com/p/BwX6ze0g8Te/ It’s true. The so-called “napkin ring problem” dates back to the 17th century and Japanese mathematician Seki Kowa, who dubbed...
Melting Siberian Permafrost Reveals a Mysterious 18,000-Year-Old Puppy
There’s not much that people love like they do dogs – and it turns out that maybe humans haven’t changed all that much in the past 20,000 years. At least, not when it comes to puppy love. Scientists believe the male animal, found near the Indigirka River in Siberia, was around 2 months old when...
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New Breed of Apple Stays Crisp for up to a Year
It’s amazing to have fresh fruit in the house. And apples are the perfect snack – tart and tasty, they’re great for baking, in yogurt, or by themselves…until the day you go to grab that last apple and find that it’s mushy and overripe. Well, science is thinking it can help make that disappointing moment...
Dentist Prosecuted for Extracting a Patient’s Tooth While Riding a Hoverboard
Going to the dentist can be really scary, but it helps if you truly trust your dentist to take care of you while you’re in that chair. One dentist is being prosecuted for betraying that trust – by riding a frickin’ hoverboard during an operation. I mean, what?? Seth Lookhart, a dentist in Alaska, extracted...
Head Deep Underground to Check out Sterling Hill Mine’s Famous Fluorescent Rocks
Deep in a zinc mine in New Jersey, you can find rocks that glow… Or at least, that fluoresce. You’ll also find a museum holding a fascinating collection of these special stones. When an overhead black light is turned on, the flat, dull-seeming rocks turn into glowing, fluorescent objects of orange, pink and green, streaked...
Kind Man Creates Wintertime Shelters for Stray Cats out of Discarded Coolers
Philip Rogich is a man we should all take a lesson from. The resident of Ogden, Utah, has taken it upon himself to look out for some of his town’s feral and stray critters this winter, which looks like it’s going to be a long and cold one. Rogich takes discarded coolers that would have...
