Geologists can look at rocks deep beneath the surface using sound, just like a doctor uses an ultrasound machine to see a developing baby? Ultrasounds and seismic waves are both types of sound waves, and they need a medium like air, liquid or rock to...
Stroke is the number one cause of adult disability. But it doesnt have to be that way. In fact, if someone having a stroke gets to the hospital in time, drugs used to break up the blood clot in the brain thats causing the stroke can prevent much of t...
How come socks dont lose their power like insoles do? There are several kinds of odor preventing and odor destroying treatments for textiles. For the most part, they work by killing or inhibiting the bacteria and fungi that cause odors. For example,...
In most species of social insects, such as wasps, bees, and ants, the females rule. The females are the workers. They are the ones to go out and get the food, and they are also the ones to care for the queen, the larvae, and the nest in general. The...
Why horses have skinny legs? Whats the use of a skinny leg? The answer is Running. The skinniest lower legs belong to the fastest runners. Think of how a deer can move, as opposed to a tortoise. Why is that? Its because when you run, or indeed walk,...
What this means is that our lips have little to no protection from the environment, and their main source of moisture is the saliva that comes from our mouths. Whats more, unlike much of the rest of our body, our lips are almost always on display, an...
Imagine holding a plate of glass in front of a regular mirroryoud still see your reflection in the mirror, but youd also see a fainter reflection from the plate of glass. In a rear-view mirror, this glass surface is a wedge, pointing somewhat downwar...
Lets start by reviewing the ways in which the surface of our lips is different from the surface of the skin on the rest of our bodies. Basically, our lips are made of the same mucus membrane that coats the inside of our mouths. This means two things....
Youre driving at night when, suddenly!, youre blinded by a piercing light from somewhere above. A car has driven up behind you, and its headlightsreflected in your rear-view mirrorare dazzlingly bright. You flick the little tab beneath your mirror an...
Although touted by infomercials as pain free, electrolysis can produce anywhere from mild irritation to sharp pain since pain-sensitive nerve endings are right next to hair follicles. Furthermore, since electrolysis only destroys one follicle at a ti...
Before a group of young cowbirds had time to socialize much, West had them stay the winter with a group of canaries. In the spring they were turned loose in an aviary with a mixed group of birds. What happened was weird: the cowbirds sang like canari...
From Botox to liposuction, people will go to great lengths to become beautiful. Some will even allow themselves to be electrocuted. As in electrolysis, the hair removal process involving mild doses of electrical current used to kill hair follicles. D...
Brown-headed cowbirds are robin-sized black birds whose range covers most of North America. From a peoples point of view cowbirds are what we might call deadbeat parents. Cowbirds lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, and the cowbird nes...
Now, however, with the help of sophisticated computers, scientists have discovered what seem to be superplumes, more intense thunderstorms, if you will. The computers produced 3D images of the mantle that suggest the existence of a superplume under A...
Hey,Yeal.Check out my new high-tech socks. Still like boring old socks, Don. What's so high-tech about them? They are woven from an odor eating material that also kills athletes foot fungus. Not only that, but the treatment in the fabric survives was...
