Tag: weird science

Garlic

Jus’ Like Mamma Used To Make – Garlic Flavours Breast Milk

16/07/2016

Garlic aroma found in breast milk ...

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nerves

We Can Teach You That Wholesale – Learning By Transcranial Stimulation

01/03/2016

Learn how to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns ...

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Gecko and An

Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls

20/01/2016

There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing...

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But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness

12/01/2016

A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal...

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ant

Good goods: Why Small Males Might Be More Attractive

11/01/2016

Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows ...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

02/01/2016

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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International Potato Center

Spuds in Space: How to (Really) Grow Potatoes on Mars

24/12/2015

Crop harvested under Red Planet conditions will set course for Martian farming...

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dogs by Mylène Quervel-ChaumetteVetmeduni Vienna 620

Caring Canines. Do Dogs Do Christmas Too?

23/12/2015

Dogs truly behave prosocially toward other dogs....

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The Effortless Life-Extending Breakthrough You Have to Try

20/12/2015

Face cream ingredient found to mimic life-extending effects of a calorie restriction diet ...

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Tall Tales and Freak Waves – The Science of the Sneaker Set

17/12/2015

Oceanic Freak waves hit without warning, new research shows ...

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How to Use Wee Wee For Wi-Fi Enabled Socks

16/12/2015

Wearable energy generator uses urine to power wireless transmitter ...

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toothbrushes

Who’s the Innovator When it Comes To Scratch? Pimp Your Toothbrush.

15/12/2015

How satisfied we are with our toothbrush depends a lot on the sound of the bristles scrubbing against the enamel....

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tiger-mosquito by wikiimages 620

Laugh at the Mosquitos: Eradicate Itching, Forever!

03/12/2015

Researchers evaluate transcranial direct current stimulation to eradicate itching...

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stellar magnet

Your Magneto-Jet Awaits, Sir. Powerful magnetic fields in Nature

02/12/2015

Simulation shows key to building powerful magnetic fields ...

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How Did You Expect to Die, and Did it Involve a Floating Hoover? (Row-Bot)

26/11/2015

Academics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) have developed the Row-bot, a robot that thrives in dirty water. ...

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Finding Your Happy Place (with MRI): the Neural Structures of Happiness

25/11/2015

Kyoto University researchers narrow in on the neural structures behind happiness...

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Raining Blood: The Simple Explanation THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE!

15/11/2015

Biological science does have an explanation for blood rain, but it's not as good as the eery ones we can imagine....

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piglet-by-Skeeze

Slurp, Sniff, Hack, Heal. Have You Told Your Mucus You Love It?

10/11/2015

Mucus. Snot as bad as it seems. Keeping us safe and germ-free, one green bogey at a time....

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dunes by skeeze

Harmattan Harmonics: Why (and How) the Sand Dune Sings

01/11/2015

Physics of booming and burping sand dunes revealed ...

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nanotubes

Who’s Putting the Nanotubes in the Air? And Why?

21/10/2015

Study of lung cells suggests nanotubes are common pollutants...

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foot by music4life

Can You Tell Your Toes Apart? Try this Toe Test

25/09/2015

Research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart...

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Carola Petersen, Hinrich Schulenburg, Kiel University

Highway Slime : Worms Hitchhike on (and in) Slugs

15/07/2015

Worms invaded the guts of slugs, survived and proliferated within the intestines, and were subsequently excreted alive with the slug feces....

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flour beetles by Matthew Silk

In Denial? Flour Beetles in a Harsh World

30/04/2015

Flour beetles exhibit a highly tactile form of courtship in which the male mounts the female and stimulates her...

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Feeling Invisible… Deliberately. Weird Science Simulation

25/04/2015

The feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...

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Sauna Door

Sweating it – Saunas Make Men Live Longer

24/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”M/dropcapale privilege. Sometimes it manifests in very obvious ways. Saunas for health and longevity. Next up, the medical research...

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