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Science
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How A Massive Steel Ball Protected Taiwan’s Tallest Skyscraper During The Recent Earthquake [Video]
05 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The spherical damper, named Damper Baby, moves back and forth during earthquakes or typhoons, which are common occurrences on the island.
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Scientists Grow Plastic-Free Vegan Leather Shoes That Dyes Itself From Bacteria
04 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The shoe itself looks the way tofu tastes (crappy), but it is a step closer to a more sustainable way of producing animal- and plastic-free clothing.
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Melting Polar Ice Is Messing With Time Itself
04 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
As the ice melts into the ocean, meltwater moves from the poles toward the equator, which slows the speed of the Earth’s rotation.
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Carbs Make You Ugly – Study Shows That Refined Carbohydrates Decreases ‘Facial Attractiveness’
13 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The findings seem to indicate that too many carbs will not just make you unhealthy, but ugly too.
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NASA Found A ‘Super-Earth’ That Might Possibly Be Habitable
07 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
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Scientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Humans Don’t Have Tails
06 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
About half a billion years ago most of the vertebrates on earth had tails, but migration from trees to a more land-based environment is believed to have hastened our tail loss.
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Strange Structure In Antarctica Is Stoking The Imagination Of Many [Video]
04 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Piercing through layers of snow and ice, the strange structure has been raising eyebrows worldwide.
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Now You’re Never Going To Stop Thinking About This Living Frog With A Mushroom Sprouting Out Of Its Body
01 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The frog is alive, AKA not decaying in death, and yet it has some fungi hitching a ride on its body. Obviously scientists are baffled.
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These Real-Life People With Super Powers Leave Scientists Scratching Their Heads
12 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
There are a very special few individuals who possess abilities that defy complete explanation by experts.
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CERN Now Wants To Build An Even Bigger Atom Smasher For R360 Billion [Video]
09 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be 91 kilometres long, dwarfing its predecessor, the 27 kilometres Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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A 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Lifted Parts Of The Japanese Coastline Up To Four Metres
06 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Some parts of the Japanese peninsula rose up to four metres, shifting the position of coastlines and leaving some ports dry.
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Scientists Baffled By Vietnamese Man Who Hasn’t Slept In 50 Years
02 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
I don’t know about you, but when I miss an hour of my precious night’s sleep, I can barely cope the next day.
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Are Cannabis Edibles Safer Than Smoking?
31 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“There’s tons of nuance there.”
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Africa’s First Deep Underground Science Laboratory Will Hunt For Dark Matter Under Du Toits Kloof Mountains
25 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Already a decade in planning, the future Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory would be a first for Africa.
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Preppers Are Paranoid After WHO Discuss ‘Disease X’ At Davos
22 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Healthcare experts at the Davos summit on Wednesday said that planning for Disease X might help save lives, and money, if countries start research and preventative steps before a recognised epidemic.
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Hold Tight, Biotech Scientists Have Already Figured Out How To Take The ‘A’ Out Of AI
12 Dec 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The AI revolution is speeding ahead, and it’s taking our brains with it.
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Scientists Call For Greater Biodiversity With Emojis
12 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
If there isn’t an emoji for it, does it even exist?
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Blind Mole With Supersonic Hearing Thought To Be Extinct Since 1936 Found In South Africa
07 Dec 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
In an extraordinary turn of events, the elusive De Winton’s golden mole, believed extinct for nearly 90 years, has been detected in South Africa.
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Van Gogh Depicted Something In His ‘Starry Night’ That Scientists Only Figured Out Recently [Video]
05 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Starry Night might just be the splashing of a one-eared madman in a French asylum, but, strangely, Van Gogh managed to capture something so distinct in his work that it showed up in Hubble Space Telescope observations a century later.
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Scientists Have Been Left Baffled After A Seriously Powerful Beam Of Cosmic Energy Hit Earth
24 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
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How Salvador Dalí Became One Of The Pioneers Of Holographic Art
15 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
For lovers of his weird surreal art, Salvador Dalí seems an obvious artist to connect to the field of Holographics.
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Archaeologists Found The Lost ‘Book Of The Dead’ Buried In An Egyptian Cemetery
03 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The book’s name may sound ominous, but the proper translation, “The Chapters/Book of Going Forth By Day”, gives it a bit more AVBOB-ish vibe at least.
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Japanese Scientists Create ‘Dream Reading Machine’ That Can Record Dreams Like A Movie [Video]
30 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Technology like this may one day be able to help us capture our deepest subconscious desires, and fears, as a ‘home movie’. The question however needs to be asked whether the realm of our dreams is better left in the dark.
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15,000 Scientists Release Alarming Climate Report: “We Are Afraid Of The Uncharted Territory That We Have Now Entered”
26 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The scientists expressed their alarm and fear for reaching this dire crossroads, warning that the climate crisis could threaten the lives of up to six billion people this century.
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NASA Is Coming To The Western Cape, But Not For The Reasons You Think
23 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
When we are told that NASA is sending two modified jets to Cape Town we all immediately wonder if the organisation is seeking out extraterrestrial life forms here – right?
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Soar through the ‘Labyrinth of Night’ With NASAs Beautiful New Martian Footage [Video]
19 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The science bros have released another thrilling video; This time viewers can experience flying through Mars’ enormous “Labyrinth of Night,” a system of extremely steep valleys and mountains about the length of Italy.
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Scientists Find Proof Of ‘Unprecedented’ HUGE Sun Explosion Hitting Earth 14,300 Years Ago
18 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Known as a ‘Miyake Event’, this storm would have hit when sabre-toothed cats still roamed Table Mountain, and our atmosphere was blasted with so much solar radiation that the radiocarbon can still be found in Earth’s tree rings.
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Some Coma Patients Stay Conscious, New Research Hopes To Identify Them
16 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Some individuals with brain injuries could seem to be in a coma, but they are not. Though they are unable to physically react, they are able to absorb what is going on around them.
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Doctors ‘Switch Off’ Part Of Girls Brain To Save Her Life
09 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Doctors in California have ‘switched off’ half of a 6-year-old girl’s brain to stop a devastating disease from killing her.
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New Study Finds Cats Have Ability To Glow In The Dark
06 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Scientists are unsure whether the fluorescent abilities have any particular biological function, or whether it’s simply because of their ‘surface chemistry’.
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