Scientist Is Pretty Sure Aliens Will Be Bear-Sized
In a thought experiment that demonstrates how science can be as fantastical as religion or magic, a mad scientist named Fergus Simpson from the University of Barcelona is publishing a paper in the...
View ArticleUES Middle School Kids Should Eat Their Class Pets
The Wall Street Journal profiled seventh- and eighth-grade students of the Upper East Side’s Ella Baker School, where a math teacher named Michael Paoli had them raise a tank full of tilapia. The...
View ArticleResearchers Say Giant-Ass Ancient Sharks Used To Live In What Is Now Texas
Everything has been bigger in Texas since before Texas even existed. A report published in the journal PLOS One (the only peer-reviewed journal with a name like a graffiti writer) shares results of a...
View ArticleA 100-Year-Old Tree, Cut Down by The City, Will Rise Again as a Clone
A very large old elm tree was chopped down on 34th Street in Astoria this spring, much to the dismay of residents. One longtime resident of the block saved some of pieces the tree as souvenirs. She...
View ArticleToddlers Are Better People Than The Rest of Us, Science Says
Christianity argues that kids are born with “Original Sin,” an impulse that has to be knocked out of them to become functional and morally responsible adults. Well, science is again at odds with...
View ArticleScience Has No Idea if Eating Your Placenta After Giving Birth is Healthy
Gaby Hoffman swears by the placenta smoothie. January Jones prefers hers ground up and dehydrated, in pill form. Most mammals eat their placentas, too. Some women have started embracing placentophagy,...
View ArticleNew Studies Show Relationship Between Brain Activity and Binge Drinking
Researchers at Duke University have identified neurological patterns that may predict if young people will drink heavily as a response to stress. In the studies, researchers used MRIs to measure brain...
View ArticleBaby Mice That Smell Cat Pee Are More Likely To Die From Cat Attacks,...
Russian scientists at the A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution have determined that mice that are exposed to cat urine in infancy do not avoid the smell later in life, and therefore get...
View ArticleMale Koalas Raise Their Voices To Avoid Conflict, Which Some Humans Do, Too,...
Researchers at the University of Queensland have observed that male koalas raise their voices in order to avoid conflict, according to EurekAlert. “Unlike humans, who raise their voices in an argument,...
View ArticleDumbness Could Be As Deadly As Nicotine
There are plenty of compelling reasons to stay in school, but a new study published in journal PLOS ONE has offered up one more — it may also be good for your health. According to researchers at New...
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