Gosh, wouldn't it be nifty if modern people created better, more environmentally conscious concrete without having to rip off the ancient Romans? A group of Colorado researchers seem to think so. In fact, they created concrete so green that it's actually alive.
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As we all know, a fish is pretty much useless if you can't ride it on the freeway. If you, like many of us, can't feel alive without the adrenaline rush that comes from watching fish go real fast, we've got great news for you. We've tracked down the fastest fish in the world.
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On the spectrum of animals that are and are not easy to eat get into our mouths, fish have swum towards the top of the rankings. Famously, they've spent the last several thousand years never catching on to the fact that worms on hooks make them disappear forever. But which fish is slowest?
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While the NOAA notes that "whale sharks are commonly docile and approachable," it asks you to "please keep your distance," which sounds a bit like a mixed message. If you don't like sharks or ambiguity, there are still plenty of big fish that aren't sharks in the sea. What's the biggest?
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Scientists at Stanford University's Lentink Lab have developed a so-called 'PigeonBot,' the unmanned aerial vehicle modeled after nature's favorite cowboy hat-wearing avians.
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Hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to find out just which particular age is the most miserable? Fortunately, Fox 4 News suggests that a recent study might have discovered the answer to this eternal dilemma.
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Vantablack --an artificial material blacker than black could ever be, and one of the unsung greatest inventions of the past decade. It reflects so little light that if you wore a Vantablack dress, it would be like your arms and legs were sticking out of a Lovecraftian abyss. How is this possible?
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A study published by Scientific Reports now claims that tardigrades, while survivalist little-engines-that-could in most situations, have a real glass jaw when it comes to taking a warm shower.
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In 1969, a meteorite came roaring over the town of Murchison, Australia.Riding atop it was ancient stardust. In a 2020 study, scientists dated one of these grains as being around seven billion years old -- making it the most ancient solid material on the planet.
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In an announcement presumably presided over by a mysterious husky whose sudden appearance nobody could properly explain, scientists are wrestling with the presence of mysterious, physics-defying particles that have been discovered busting up out of the ice in Antarctica.
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Wouldn't it be awesome if they could make space food practically from scratch using a few cells as ingredients? Well, in 2019, a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS provided the first semblance of an answer to that question by making 'space beef.'
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This Pennsylvania town was once an ordinary slice of Americana, but these days, the ghostly ruins of the so-called 'real Silent Hill' has no zip code, no stores, and almost no people. Here is the story of Centralia, the town that sits atop an underground inferno that could rage for centuries.
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If our Solar System's planets were people on a bus, Saturn would be the guy in a purple cape, smelling of patchouli and smoking a corn husk pipe. With its distinctive rings, Saturn is the eccentric bus-guy of our cosmic neighborhood. Sadly, Saturn is slowly losing its ring-bedazzled mojo. But why?
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One of the pinnacles of space science came in December 26, 2019, when NASA astronaut Christina Koch reported on Twitter that the ISS team had successfully baked cookies in space.
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After hearing a story of an Inuit man who fashioned his poop into a frozen blade, scientists wanted to see for themselves whether it would cut. So they turned their own frozen poop into knives.
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Our actual galaxy has "thousands" of alien stars, just hanging around like it isn't even a thing. The reason behind this is as fascinating as it is weird.
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There's an old saying that says you can't run with the fox and hunt with the hounds. But what if a hound looks just like its sly brethren? Here's which doggie dissembler comes closest to running with the fox.
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The almond industry, which has seen an enormous boom in the last few years, may be responsible for the deaths of tens of billions of honey bees.
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A frozen LEGO block sounds like a handy way to both hurt your foot and get frostbite on your way to the bathroom at night. However, if you ask science, it's quite a bit more than that -- in fact, a stack of cold enough LEGOs might be enough to take computers into a wild, unknown future.
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Galactus is coming. Okay, not really. However, astronomers have been getting riled up about a series of crazy fast radio energy lights in the sky which they can't explain, and that's enough to get any sci-fi fan hopping up and down.
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What is it that makes humanity so human? Is it our capacity for self-awareness? Maybe our ability to create art and understand complex philosophical concepts? Then again, a strange, unique brain signal that might provide our brains with more "computing power" than science has previously realized.
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The Chinese paddlefish, also known as the "Chinese swordfish," is part of a group of fish believed to have been around since the Lower Jurassic period. Rather, it was, until those pesky humans came along and wiped the species right off the face of the Earth like doodles on a dry erase board.
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Discovering something for the first time is a magnificent thing, but it's not until you observe it a second time that you prove that the first one wasn't just a fluke. One of these great second times took place in January 6, 2020, when LIGO repeated its 2015 trick of detecting gravitational waves.
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Good news for anyone who doesn't have small children or a cat today: now, you too can experience the sensation of never, ever feeling alone in the bathroom, as Procter & Gamble has introduced the world to a toilet paper robot.
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Ah, flying cars! Exciting in theory, mildly terrifying in reality. The latest development on the airborne commute front came on January 6, 2020, when Hyundai announced they were teaming up with Uber to create an "air taxi service," which could be operational as early as 2023.
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Modern telescopes, satellites and whatnot have found plenty of planets. However, things get really exciting when we find one that orbits its sun in the so-called habitable zone -- the small fraction of the solar system that could theoretically support life. Well, guess what? NASA just found one.
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Lo, the firenado: destroyer of worlds. But where does it come from? What is its origin? Against whom does it seek to exact terrible vengeance?
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