WEIRD FACTS
By David Szondy – Sandia National Laboratories researchers leading the MARCUS project are working to develop a system that addresses current and future national security threats posed by small unmanned aircraft systems. Randy Montoya. – Robotics engineers from SNL (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) …
By Aaron Turpen – It may not look so, but the Morgan Plus Four is completely new from the ground up. Morgan Motors. – The Plus 4 has been a Morgan Motors staple since 1950, but eventually, all things must change. Sometimes it’s for …
Not all bathrooms are clean, which poses a problem for holiday travelers trying to keep their hands clean. Seroma72/Shutterstock.com By Michelle Sconce Massaquoi Doctoral candidate, microbiology, University of Oregon – For my fourth-grade science fair project, I tested different soaps to …
By Loz Blain – Designed for symmetry to keep the parts list down, the Citroen Ami’s right and left doors are the same part. Thus, they open in opposite directions. Copyright maison-vignaux @ Continental Productions. – A truly unique little car is coming to …
By Amanda Sedlak-Hevener – Who was Victoria Woodhull? You might not know her name, but once you hear her story, you’ll never forget her. She was the first woman to run for President of the United States, and as a third-party candidate, no …
After a month of record-breaking temperatures, a kind of snow algae that turns ruby-hued in warm temperatures thrives. So-called ‘watermelon snow’ sounds better than it looks and tastes; do not eat the pink snow. (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine) By Lily …
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Map showing the source languages of state names – The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of …
By Ben Coxworth – To turn this into even stronger concrete … just add lignin? mettus/Depositphotos. – Production of the cement used in concrete is a huge source of CO2 emissions, so the more that we can recycle existing concrete, the better. That’s where …
By David Szondy – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Crop Trust. – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a major a new deposit of seeds from several hundred plant species. In a formal ceremony on February 25, 2020, hosted by the Norwegian Prime …
How can you tell the news from the noise? pathdoc/Shutterstock.com – By Elizabeth Stoycheff, Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University – You might have fallen for someone’s attempt to disinform you about current events. But it’s not your fault. Even the most …
