Two-and-a-half inch monster has jaws longer than its legs.
A new species of wasp discovered on the Indonesian island Sulawesi is two-and-a-half inches long, and has jaws so vast that its discoverer admits, ‘I don’t know how it can walk.’ (Pics)
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High-fat diets cause new brain cells to sprout in an area of the brain that seems to regulate eating.
Does your diet consist of eating too many French fries and burgers? Then, the effects would not only show up in your weight but also in your brain, scientists say.
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Edible bottles
Nature creates its own packaging for perishable foodstuffs. Most fruits and vegetables come pre-packaged in delicious edible containers. The biomedical engineer who came up with huffable food, David Edwards, is now developing customized edible containers for all kinds of food, from juice to wine to chocolate.
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The nation’s population of those 65 and older will double between 2000 and 2030.
As aging Baby Boomers move out of the workforce and into retirement, few communities have started to think long term about how to plan and redesign services for them.
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Are you good at keeping friends?
Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain — known as the orbital prefrontal cortex — that is found just above the eyes. A new study shows that this brain region is bigger in people who have a larger number of friendships…
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Popcorn. It’s whats for dinner.
Next time you’re stuffing your face with popcorn, don’t feel guilty; a new scientific study shows that, far from being junk food, popcorn packs a better nutritional punch than fruit or vegetables. Kind of.
The study, conducted at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, shows that popcorn has more antioxidants in it than fruit or vegetables. Not just that, but those pesky little husks—the ones that get stuck right between your teeth—contain incredibly high concentrations of both antioxidants and fiber. “Those hulls deserve more respect,” explains Joe Vinson, one of the researchers. “They are nutritional gold nuggets.”
In fact, Vinson seems pretty bowled over by popcorn. Speaking to Science Daily, he explains…
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Anticipation of blood-shed. How is there not a word in our language for that?.
Quote of the Day: “What a nice night for an evening.” – Steven Wright
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What are these strange creatures capable of?
Talk about a long scientific experiment*. Japanese researchers have bred an unusual line of fruit fly called “Dark-fly” which has been kept in constant darkness for 57 years (1,400 generations). They’ve sequenced the Dark-fly’s genome and are now figuring out the genomic alterations linked to adaptation to living in the dark.
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Unhealthy thanks to bad food.
USDA data shows that in 2010 Americans spent 9.4 percent of their disposable income on food, which equals 5.5 percent at home and 3.9 percent eating out. As a nation, we spend far less of a percentage on our food than we ever have before. For example, in 1929 we spent 23.4 percent of our disposable income on food, which equaled 20.3 percent at home and 3.1 percent eating out.
Not only are we spending much less of our money on the foods we eat, we eat out far more than ever before, buying fatty processed and fast foods laden with saturated fats, sodium, and added sugars. When compared to other countries, our food is by far the cheapest…
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Any kid knows how to produce an entire foley library worth of gross sound effects from a bowl of jello. But Raphaël Pluvinage and Marianne Cauvard’s Noisy Jelly kit produces more pleasing sounds using gelatinous shapes and a special playing board…
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Artist rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope
Astronomers have begun to blast 3 million cubic feet of rock from a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes to make room for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the world’s largest telescope when completed near the end of the decade. The GMT will help astronomers probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy – mysterious forms of matter and energy that allow galaxies to form while the expansion of the Universe accelerates…
Nokia’s idea would involve semi-permanent markings on the user’s body.
A patent application was filed by Nokia that would involve users having vibrating magnetic tattoos that alert them to incoming mobile phone calls or text messages.
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