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Termites were building these mounds when humans were building Egypt’s pyramids. By Sarah Sloat – This is an image of the mounds. Termite mounds typically outlive the colonies that built them, so it was doubly astonishing when thousands of insects were recently …
David Szondy – China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) achieved an electron temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius in its core plasma (Credit: IPP). The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China’s Experimental Advanced …
Rich Haridy – Sensitivity to the bitterness of caffeine has been found to actually increase a person’s propensity to drink coffee (Credit: massonforstock/Depositphotos). Intriguing new research has revealed that people with a preference for drinking coffee over tea tend to display a genetic variant …
Michael Irving – The tardigrade shall inherit the Earth, according to a new study from Oxford and Harvard (Credit: rukanoga/Depositphotos). In about 5 billion years’ time, our Sun will use up its reserves of hydrogen and begin to cool down and expand, …
David Szondy – – A small, ephemeral lagoon in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert (Credit: Carlos González-Silva/Provided). Water may be an essential element of life, but to the scarce microbes that inhabit the Mars-like Atacama Desert in Chile, it’s death. …
Ben Coxworth – RFIQ is based on a process known as “weak coupling” (Credit: MIT). Passive RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are small, inexpensive, battery-less labels that are already used to track and identify a wide variety of items. If MIT’s experimental RFIQ …
By Barry Neild – (CNN) — Some amazing archeological finds involve daring adventures into hidden tombs. Others — as is the case with the discovery of a beautiful new sphinx in Egypt — simply involve a spot of drainage. – The newly uncovered …
Michael Irving – New computer simulations have questioned the existence of dark energy, a so-far theoretical force that is said to be driving the expansion of the universe. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech). According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model, which is the current accepted standard for …
Rich Haridy – Two different configurations of the Monkeycycle (Credit: Monkeycycle). Grow bikes are nothing new in the children’s bicycle scene, however Monkeycycle is an extraordinarily modular new innovation designed to offer your child eight different configurations, morphing from a stroller for …
“These compounds are very similar.” By Peter Hess – Photo by Bernd Haynold – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org. Move over, marijuana: Scientists have their eye on a THC-like psychoactive chemical found in the unassuming, lumpy Radula, a group of plants in …
