Tag: Science
Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has made a series of images showing us exactly what it would like if some of the most popular tourist traps turned into a modern day version of Water World sans Kevin Costner. Lamm hopes that these illustrations will help raise public awareness about the impact of climate change. Umm, let’s go […]
Here’s a fun little game that’s backed by SCIENCE! Recent studies suggest that certain aspects of your personality and future health can be predicted by your finger length — the “digit ratio” of your ring and index fingers, specifically. While doctors aren’t making diagnosis’ based on finger length just yet, scientists have found some fairly […]
One-hundred human brains from patients of the Texas State Mental Hospital. In jars of fluid. Numbered. Labeled with the specifications of their malformalities. Stacked in a storage closet. Untouched for thirty years. That’s what photographer Adam Voorhes found when Scientific American magazine sent him to the University of Texas at Austin to borrow “a normal human […]
The most frustrating thing about filthy, disgusting bugs is their ability to quickly reproduce. If you happen to suffer from, say, a roach infestation, you know that all you can really do is beat the little guys back. No matter how close you come to completely eradicating them, there’s always a handful left, biding their […]
A newly discovered species of wasp that lays its eggs inside other insects, which kill their hosts as they hatch, has been named for an appropriately badass fictional character: Beatrix Kiddo aka The Bride, the protagonist of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Science Codex points to Kiddo’s mastery of the five point palm exploding heart technique as potential […]
Australian scientists have just successfully resurrected the gastric-brooding frog. Native to the Australian rainforest — until it became extinct in 1983 — it was best known for the fact that it gave birth through its mouth. It was killed off by a combination of disease, habitat loss, and parasites — all non-human-related causes. Phew. At […]
There’s just something really weird and gross about teeth. Everybody’s always dreaming that theirs are falling out, and even when they stay in like they’re supposed to, the fact that i have a bunch of bones protruding from the fleshy tissue in my mouth is something I can only focus on for a short while […]
The extinct passenger pigeon, a prime example of what happens when settlers hunt animals with no regard for reproductive cycles, might get a chance to exist again, thanks to science. A group of scientists in Washington, D.C. is figuring out if a passenger pigeon revival is scientifically possible, but the other issue is the morality […]
It looks like your erotic space fantasies won’t make it beyond your sticky Star Wars sheets in the morning — at least not if you care about your health. A new study shows that interstellar intercourse could actually be life-threatening. Researchers studying plant cells found that gravity changes can seriously harm living cells. As if […]
Here’s the latest booze news from the science world: Alcohol actually fuels the brains of heavy drinkers, a new study shows, literally boosting the brain’s energy levels, something that we once thought only sugar could do. Habitual boozing increases brain levels of acetate, a high-energy chemical released by the liver during alcohol metabolism. Interestingly, the […]
