Sliding Spring Speeds past Mars
The comet Sliding Spring whizzed past the Red Planet last week at a speed of over 203,000 km/h, coming as close as 140,000 km—a proximity that is not only very …
Glowing Ice Cream
I’ll have one vanilla, one chocolate and one bioluminescent in a cone, please. You’re puzzled? So am I. Charlie Francis, an ice cream entrepreneur, has gone almost as far as …
Fire Ant Fabric
50% Cotton, 40% Polyester, 10% Fire ant? Could fire ants be the new fabric on the market? Though probably not in the close future, their extraordinary traits are helping scientists …
Neanderthals liked their veg
50,000-year-old fossilised feces have given evidence that the Neanderthals\’ diets may have some presence in plants.As study at El Salt showed that all fecal samples found at an archaeological site in …
Tomatoes combat cancer
Tomatoes and other lycopene-containing fruit and vegetables have been shown to lower the risk of renal cancer in women. The study looked at over 90,000 women throughout the last 20 …
Robotic Whiskers
A team of scientists at the University of California have taken inspiration from cat whiskers in order to develop extremely responsive sensors that could one day help robots to \”sense\” …