The Science of Slinky Drops
Watching QI is, without fail, a great way to learn new things that make me go… “Hah that’s quite interesting!” (yeah, you saw that coming!). This time Stephen Fry was talking about slinky drops,...
Watching QI is, without fail, a great way to learn new things that make me go… “Hah that’s quite interesting!” (yeah, you saw that coming!). This time Stephen Fry was talking about slinky drops,...
Pretty much everyone has seen the fantastic Oatmeal comic about the Mantis Shrimp by now. Because the mantis shrimp has such amazingly complex eyes, we assumed that they would see the world around them...
Last night the BBC had an interesting documentary (Nature’s Weirdest Events) which featured a really bizarre creature; the two-colored lobster, split right down the middle where one half was bright orange, and the other...
Last week there was news reports that the virus responsible for the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was found in a bat in Saudi Arabia. As per usual the headlines pounced on this story...
No neuron is an island. It comes as no surprise that the cells that are responsible for something as profound as our thoughts, feelings and movements require a lot of support and nurture. Neurons...
Fascinating article in Nature about how our ability to consume milk evolved due to a chance genetic mutation that spread through the population, and shaped human settlement across a continent. You can read the...