Sniffer dogs can detect lung cancer.
Dogs can be trained to accurately identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop, according to researchers.
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Alligator fat could be a new source of biodiesel
Alligator fat meets nearly all of the official standards for high-quality biodiesel.
Alligators, in addition to being a novelty food, could also provide a feedstock for biodiesel. The alligator meat industry disposes of about 15 million pounds of alligator fat in landfills every year. Scientists discover the that oil can be extracted from the fat and used to make a high-quality biodiesel.
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25 Amazing Award-Winning Photos
Every once in a while we come across some amazing photos. So we decided to create a series of what we believe are some of the best we’ve come across. The photos are from different photographers and include photos of animals, birds, news photos, funny photos, landscapes, events, and more. Just kick back and enjoy …
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Scientists reverse evolution to create chickens that grow alligator-like snouts
Altering the DNA of chicken embryos can give them qualities they lost millions of years ago.
Chickens and other birds are thought to have descended from dinosaurs through a series of genetic changes. Scientists have rewound 65 million years of evolutionary history by tweaking chicken DNA to create embryos that grow alligator-like snouts rather than beaks.
Weekend hunting trip
Artist Jason Edmiston brings home the perspective change.
There’s nothing quite like a weekend away from the family to spend with your buddies at the cabin. We might as well get a picture so we can remember these good times when we get too old go out regularly…
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Fossilized pregnant dinosaur may present first evidence of live birth
A soon to be famous fossil.
This fossilized Polycotylus latippinus, a carnivorous marine reptile that lived 78 million years ago, contains a smaller, less developed skeleton inside of her. Scientists are therefore speculating that this creature did not lay eggs like other dinosaurs, but gave birth to live young…
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
The mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our friend
“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.” – – Jerry Sienfeld
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Advantage always tips to the craziest among us
“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – – Douglas Adams
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Nature by the numbers: Fibonacci Sequence animated in mesmerizing video
We all learned about the Fibonacci numbers in school. If you need a refresher course, the integers in the Fibonacci sequence start with 0 and 1. Each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two, so the third number in the sequence is 1, the fourth number, is 2, the fifth number is 3, and so on. The Fibonacci spiral is something we see every day in nature but never really pay much attention to. However, an amazing YouTube video called “Nature By Numbers” puts the mathematical sequence into perspective for us…
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GDT Nature Photograph Winners
This winning photo of creatures of land and air colliding taken by Bence Máté.
The German Society of Nature Photographers — the trippingly named Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen — holds a contest every year for the best photographs. Featured in the Guardian are some of the winners with some truly stunning photographs. Check out this year’s winners on display at the Guardian’s website, including this wonderful example by Bence Máté taken in Hungary. Who do you think won this standoff? My bet’s on the bird…
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
With lips like cherries and a tongue like strawberries,
she has all the makings of a total fruit cake
“If the crime rate keeps falling, we simply won’t be able to build prisons fast enough.” – – Futurist Thomas Frey
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Eek! Mice are evolving an immunity to poison!
Feisty little buggers.
The rodents of the future will eat poison pellets like candy, according to new research conducted on mice found in a German bakery. The baker called in an exterminator to rid his business of the pests and discovered, to his horror, that the little buggers weren’t even fazed by bromadiolone, which is a very concentrated and deadly version of the common rat poison warfarin…
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