WEIRD SCIENCE
Nick Lavars – Medical experts are increasingly concerned about the threat of drug-resistant bacteria (Credit: knorre/Depositphotos). Common bacteria living on our skin has raised a red flag for scientists concerned with the rise of superbugs, as new research reveals the spread of …
“I don’t know how to appreciate art. But I sure do know how to make a clinical diagnosis.” By Yasmin Tayag – The “Mona Lisa” has her own room in the Louvre, where she attracts six million visitors each year. Her room is …
Semi artificial photosynthesis takes a cue from plants. By James Dennin – One of the more long shot efforts to not only develop more renewable energy, but also to help mitigate climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a process …
By Mike Brown – SpaceX wants to give rise to a human settlement on Mars. Starting small with a couple of spaceships and expanding out into a sprawling metropolis, a colony on the red planet is partially the vision of Paul Wooster, principal …
Anthony Wood – Image of Earth captured by NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite (Credit: NASA). An international team of scientists has proposed a series of deadlines by which humanity must take serious action to combat climate change if it is …
Darren Quick – Camu camu extract has been found to prevent obesity in mice fed a high-fat and high-sugar diet (Credit: LeRoc (CC BY-SA 3.0)). Found in the Amazon rainforest in Peru and Brazil, camu camu fruit has gained popularity around the …
Michael Irving – A new study suggests there may be 1,000 times more diamonds in the Earth’s interior than previously believed (Credit: kelpfish/Depositphotos). In case you weren’t already sure that diamonds aren’t as unique or valuable as advertisers want us to believe, the …
Michael Irving – A Mars-sized planetary body could be hiding in our Solar System beyond Pluto (Credit: Heather Roper/LPL). In January last year, astronomers from Caltech suggested that a gigantic so-far-undiscovered planet might be lurking on the fringes of the Solar System. Now …
Michael Irving – New research shows how ash from volcanic eruptions could trigger drastic climate shifts, as was the case in 1816 (Credit: Byelikova/Depositphotos). The year 1816 was a weird one, climatically speaking. Months that would normally be warm and pleasant were …
Michael Irving – A scanning electron microscope of the new battery anode: left containing asphalt, graphene nanoribbons and lithium, while the right image only contains the asphalt and graphene (Credit: Tour Group/Rice University). As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing …
