Tag: research

June 15, 2016 at 12:46 pm

Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature

Close-Up of the First Mechanical Gear Ever Found in Nature

The biological form of a mechanical gear was observed in juvenile planthoppers, a common insect found in gardens across Europe

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June 2, 2016 at 6:58 pm

Your Brain is Two and What Makes You, You

Your Brain is Two and What Makes You, You

CGP Grey and Kurzgesagt collaborate on a two-part video series about our brain(s) and what we’re ‘made’ of

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May 27, 2016 at 2:23 pm

Guy Sets Remote Camera Deep in the Amazon and Captures the Rainforest’s Incredible Biodiversity

Guy Sets Remote Camera Deep in the Amazon and Captures the Rainforest's Incredible Biodiversity

“An Unseen World” is an award winning short film by Paul Rosolie. The variety of species captured in this one location is astounding

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May 10, 2016 at 4:37 pm

Canadian Teen May Have Found Lost City Using Ancient Star Maps

Canadian Teen May Have Found Lost City Using Ancient Star Maps

No other scientist has found such correlation in the past several hundred years of study of the Ancient civilization

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May 3, 2016 at 12:10 pm

Rare and Mysterious Jellyfish Spotted 12,000 Ft Deep

Rare and Mysterious Jellyfish Spotted 12,000 Ft Deep

The mysterious jellyfish was seen during the Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas expedition on April 24, 2016, while exploring Enigma Seamount at a depth of ~3,700 meters (12,100 ft)

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April 20, 2016 at 11:53 am

How the Same Emoji Varies Across Platforms

How the Same Emoji Varies Across Platforms

That ‘grinning face with smiling eyes’ emoji does not look how you think it looks

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March 15, 2016 at 3:50 pm

Watch 6 Microbots Weighing 100 Grams Work Together to Pull an 1800 kg Car

Watch 6 Microbots Weighing 100 Grams Work Together to Pull an 1800 kg Car

Inspired by ants’ ability to transport objects far larger than themselves, researchers at Stanford used 6 microbots weighing only 100 grams to pull a car

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February 16, 2016 at 4:52 pm

These 360 TB Discs Will Last for 13.8 Billion Years

These 360 TB Discs Will Last for 13.8 Billion Years

Coined as the ‘Superman memory crystal’, data is recorded via self-assembled nanostructures created in fused quartz

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February 11, 2016 at 2:24 pm

What Researchers Learned from the World’s Longest Study on Happiness

What Researchers Learned from the World's Longest Study on Happiness

Psychiatrist Robert Waldinger is the 4th director of the ongoing, 75-year-old study on adult development and happiness. This is what they’ve learned

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January 21, 2015 at 3:27 pm

Want Kids to Eat More Fruits and Veggies? Make Recess Before Lunch

Want Kids to Eat More Fruits and Veggies? Make Recess Before Lunch

Photograph by another sergio on Flickr A new study has shown a simple, no-cost trick to increasing fruit and vegetable consumption by as much as 54%—switching recess to before lunch in elementary schools. Photograph by USDA on Flickr Joseph Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University, collaborated with Corenell’s David Just…

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