D:Hey,Yael.You know how everyone frets about oil running out and prices going up everything? Y:Yeah. D:Well, there are other ways to make gasoline, like making it from coal. Its called coal gasification. The technologys been around for decades, but i...
In 1989, a massive earthquake rocked San Francisco. About sixteen people were killed and hundreds were injured. Several freeway overpasses toppled, but most of the citys buildings remained intact. Cut to 2008, when an equally massive earthquake struc...
The history of this idiom goes back to the American frontier days. During the early 1700s, hunters killed many deer, using their skins for barter. The male deer is called a buck, and buckskin was prized as a material for making durable outdoor clothi...
Have you ever been driving down a pothole filled street, thinking, I wish the city, someone, anyone would fix the roads! Soon, roads and streets may be able to fix themselves. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a type of concret...
If you put extended pressure on your arm, by leaning or sleeping on it, it might go numb and then give you a tingling feeling. Your arm falls asleep like this because prolonged pressure on a nerve, or on a nerves blood supply, can temporarily damage...
Dear Annie: When I was in college, I was good friends with Carrie. When Carrie met my boyfriend, she was rather intoxicated and said some hurtful things about him. Carrie went on and on about how she couldn't believe I would date a frat boy, that I w...
Amanda: Have you asked your parents for permission to go to the concert? Mike: No, I have not, because I have a feeling that they are going to say No. Amanda: Why? Our music teacher will give us extra credit if we write a report on the performance. Y...
Money Changers Ever wonder how a money changer machine knows if you've given it a one, a five or a ten dollar bill? When a bill is inserted into a money changer machine, it disrupts a light beam from within the machine. This action triggers the motor...
Good News! Corn May Be A New Energy Source A gene is a gene is a gene. But a single gene often has more than one job in the cell. Scientists working with corn genes know that first hand. In the beginning, they thought the Glossy 15 gene only gave cor...
Most of us are familiar with those clever ocean dwelling mammals, the dolphins. But did you know that there are a few rare species of dolphins that live exclusively in rivers? Sadly, one of the five species of river dolphins, the Chinese, or Yangtze...
Oil Spills , Naturally It's a big deal when an oil tanker spills its contents into the ocean. And for good reason. When the Exxon Valdez dumped ten million gallons of oil into waters off the Alaskan coast, the massive slick killed hundreds of thousan...
Creatures That Yawn When Stimulated If youve ever visited a zoo, youve probably seen animals yawn. You might have thought those yawns were a result of boredom, but research has suggested that most animals do not yawn for precisely the same reasons as...
At first, pedestrians walking past see an air-raid shelter, a typical reminder of Berlin's wartime history. Yet, a second glance at the massive building on Berlin's Reinhardtstrasse, near both the government quarter and the Friedrichstrasse railway s...
How Time Passes In Dreams Many people believe that hours worth of events and activities can be dreamed about in a matter of seconds. Despite this common belief about how we dream, time in dreams actually is not compressed. If you dream of an activity...
This idiom is always presented in a negative way, and most often as a threat. If a person is physically violent, he or she may hit, slap or punch others, using his entire hand. What this idiom is saying to such a person is that using even one finger...
