Girls Won All Five Top Prizes in National STEM Contest for Middle Schoolers
As the saying goes, “The future is female.” And that trend was certainly on display recently at the 2019 Broadcom MASTERS competition. The competition, “Math, Applied Science, Technology, and Engineering for Rising Stars,” highlights very bright middle-schoolers and is run by the Society for Science & the Public. This year, girls won all of the...
Your Cat Does Make Facial Expressions After All, You Just Probably Can’t Read Them
Good news, cat people! If you pay very close attention, you may finally be able to tell WTF your cat is thinking. A study in the journal Animal Welfare found that cats show their moods on their faces, but that only a small subset of people can actually pick up on what they’re feeling. Researchers at the...
This Electric Eel Can Generate Enough Electricity to Light a Christmas Tree
‘Tis the season to watch eels power your Christmas lights show. Isn’t that the way the saying goes? No? Well it might be now, after the Tennessee Aquarium live-tweeted their resident social media eel, Miguel Wattson, using his bio-electric discharges to light up a Christmas tree. The only proper way to enjoy this is with...
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6 Things You’ve Heard About Being Pregnant That Don’t Hold Water
For something that’s people have been doing for as long as there have been people, there is a surprising amount of confusion about pregnancy (and I’m not just talking about man-children who didn’t pay attention in sex-ed class). We (mostly) all know that sex leads to pregnancy, but once you’re actually there, baby-in-womb, well…at that...
Anti-Vaxxers Tried to Come up with a New Name for Themselves, and It Went Horribly Wrong
Anti-vaxxers have built a very negative reputation in the media. At this point, when you see the word “anti-vaxxer” in a headline, you can pretty much guarantee that you’re about to read an off-the-wall story. That’s why anti-vaxxers are sick of being called that name. They’d like to go by a new name now… But...
Studies Show That People Born in December Have Advantages over Others
Everyone likes to give a shout-out to the month they were born (February, what up!). But is there really any advantage to being born in one month as opposed to any of the others? Surprisingly, studies point to YES. And I’m talking about multiple studies that suggest December is the best month in which to...