WEIRD FACTS
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on 2023 May 03, in Burbank, Calif. David McNew/Getty Images – By David Arditi, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas Arlington Published: 2023 May 05 …
The knife easily leaves swirls in the spread. Rimglow/iStock via Getty Images Plus – By Ted Heindel, University Professor, Bergles Professor of Thermal Science, and Director of the Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education, Iowa State University Published: 2023 May 04 – …
Astronomers have observed the first compelling evidence of a dying Sun-like star engulfing an exoplanet, a fate that may befall the Earth when our own Sun nears the end of its life in about five billion years. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani View …
Researchers have attached electrodes to mushrooms in the forest to measure their communication signals, and found they talk more after rain. Yu Fukasawa – By Michael Irving 2023 May 02 – Whether they’re hacking the brains of bugs or mining for gold, fungi are …
Not just a pretty face: sloths could be superbug secret weapons. Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 May 01 – Ever since French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, first described the sloth in 1749, the planet’s slowest moving mammal has had its work …
The particles could be linked to cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. (Image removed at request of PicRights) Many chemicals found in various types of plastic are known carcinogens and hormone-disruptors. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters – Opinion – Plastics – …
Scientists have developed an oscillating genetic ‘clock’ that significantly slows down the aging process in tests in yeast cells. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2023 Apr 30 – Scientists at UC San Diego have developed a way to potentially slow down the cellular aging …
Who’s in control? John Lund/Stone via Getty Images – Author By Molly Jackson, Religion and Ethics Editor Interviewed Alec Stubbs, Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, UMass Boston Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder Naomi S. Baron, Professor Emerita of …
An artist’s reconstruction of the newly discovered rhynchosaur, Beesiiwo cooowuse, named in the language of the First Nations people indigenous to the area in which it was found. Gabriel Ugueto – By Paul McClure 2023 Apr 27 – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
Do you really need another water bottle, or is your brain just tired? Teera Konakan/Moment Collection/Getty Images – By Matthew Pittman, Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee Published: 2023 Apr 25 – The Research Brief is a short take …
