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Swimming Tentacled Droplets | Kottke
Well, this is really quite odd. A group of scientists discovered that if they cool ordinary oily droplets floating in water down to around 2-8°C, they change shape, grow tentacles, and propel themselves around […] More: Swimming Tentacled Droplets
Could You Ever Be Immune To Every Germ? Your Immune System, Explained
[…] Do you remember having a cold in 5th grade? Or the flu a couple years ago? Your immune system does. Our bodies hold many levels of immune defense.Physical barriers like skin, the innate immune system, and our body’s most … Continue reading
Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there | Donald Hoffman
Galileo was quite controversial, in part, because he argued that Earth moved around the sun, despite people’s senses deluding them that the world was static. Evolution may have primed us to see the world in terms of payoffs rather than … Continue reading
The Plate Tectonics Revolution: Crash Course Geography #19
Today we’re going to tell the story of a quiet revolution in the 1960s that shifted our entire understanding of how the Earth works. We currently believe that the Earth’s broken outer shell rises from the mantle and folds back … Continue reading
Mammals, Mutants, and… Roaches: The Science of Milk
The world of milks is much wider than your coffee shop oat variety. From rhinos to cockroaches, milk is essential for the development of many animals’ offspring. Hosted by:Hank Green […]
HOW ON EARTH did China succeed in landing Zhurong rover on Mars? Review of CNSA deep space missions
As the first Mars rover probe launched by China, Tianwen-1 Zhurong rover has completed the three major technical steps of Mars exploration at one time. The three steps are Orbiting, landing, and patrolling, which are, entering Mars orbit, landing on … Continue reading
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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Spots Intriguing Terrain for Perseverance Rover to Explore | SciTech Daily
By JET PROPULSION LABORATORY JULY 13, 2021 NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of tracks made by the Perseverance rover during its ninth flight, on July 5. A portion of the helicopter’s landing gear can be seen at top … Continue reading
What’s in the 4% of our DNA that makes us different from chimps?
On the genetic level, we’re not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in DNA can have huge effects. Hosted by: Hank Green […]
5 Things That Make You a Mosquito Magnet
Every summer it seems like there’s that one person who always gets a lot of mosquito bites. But what makes people mosquito magnets? […]
Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s
By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory High-tide flooding in Honolulu. Credit: Hawaii Sea Grant King Tides Project In Brief: In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea … Continue reading
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