Researchers recently discovered certain drugs, including one developed to treat Alzheimer’s, stimulate innate self-repair mechanisms. By Ferris Jabr – Credit: Getty Images. For dentists, a cavity is a conundrum—in order to save the tooth they must further damage it. Currently, the primary way …
by Colleen Tressler Consumer Education Specialist, FTC – With the summer travel season in high gear, the FTC is warning drivers about skimming scams at the pump. Read more > (For more information please visit: https://www.FTC.gov)
The goats chowed down on flowerbeds, leaves and grass before being rounded up. by Ethan Sacks – Residents of an Idaho neighborhood woke up Friday morning to a sight that really got their goat. An invading herd of more than 100 goats rampaged …
Scott Collie – The Aerovelo Eta uses a bullet-shaped shell to cut through the air. Aerovelo has set a new human-powered speed record using its specially designed aero bike. Running at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, the …
Rich Haridy – Finalist: Jumping Spider (Credit: Richard Kubica / International Garden Photographer of the Year) The winners of the Macro Art Photo Project have been revealed with first place awarded to a magnificent shot of two mayflies perched atop a poppy. …
by Robby Berman – A legendary mystery gets explained at last. Maybe. (pingebat/Big Think) If it seems that it was just about a year ago that scientists finally figured out the mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle, it was. The culprits behind the …
by Richard G ‘Bugs’ Stevens – Photo by Serge Kutuzov on Unsplash Light pollution is often characterised as a soft issue in environmentalism. This perception needs to change. Light at night constitutes a massive assault on the ecology of the planet, including us. …
Rich Haridy – Team SEArch+/Apis Cor of New York is the fourth-place winner in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, Phase 3: Level 1 competition (Credit: SEArch+/Apis Cor) NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, which kicked off in 2015, is now well into its …
Michael Irving – Scientists have managed to revive worms (similar to the one pictured) that were frozen in the Siberian permafrost for up to 42,000 years (Credit: K-State Research and Extension/CC BY 2.0) The Siberian permafrost is famous for preserving the remains of life …
