Amsterdam based company ‘String Gardens’ is behind these beautifully arranged gardens. Owner Fedor van der Valk presents plants in a completely new way. Check their facebook website for more informat...
Anyone who has travelled the world, has probably experienced problems with ‘reading people’s faces’. While it is usually easy to estimate how another person feels when you’re in your own environment,...
Another eye-catching gadget is on the market: the HyperJuice Plug. The design is equipped with two high-powered USB ports that can charge two Ipads, Iphones or any other USB device at the same time. ...
Until now, British filmmaker Ridley Scott had just made two sci-fi films, ‘Alien’ (1979) and ‘Blade Runner’ (1982), but both stand as genre-defining movies. This will not be the case of ‘Prometheus’,...
Cancer is set to become a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the coming decades in every region of the world, according to new research. The study estimated that the global incidence of cancer...
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A rendering of the night sky 3.75 billion years from now when the Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda galaxy are expected to merge. Photo: NASA Goddard Photo and Video / flickr
Sometimes, in order to become listed as one of the weirdest scientific experiments of all time, conducting actual research isn’t even necessary. In the late sixties, one guys’ oddly picked outfit led...
How do cats see the world? In 1999, neurobiologists Garett Stanley, Fei Li and Yang Dan were determined to find out. So they implanted a multielectrode array in a cats brain that detects visual stimu...
Last month, Spain’s king Juan Carlos was roundly condemned when people found out his his so-called “vacation” in Botswana had in fact been a secret elephant-hunting trip. Back in the sixties, however...
Whoever thinks this study is nothing more than two researchers finding the ultimate excuse to receive 5,300 lap dances in two months, will be disappointed: Research psychologists Geoffrey Miller and ...
This one is a case study rather than an experiment, but is nevertheless too good to not include in this list celebrating the awkwardness of science. The article starts with what is probably the best ...
Ok, so this probably wasn’t a real question people bothered Google with – it’s more likely they were looking for the eponymous essay written by law professor Frederick Schauer. In his article ‘Can Ba...
Weird or not, some experiments are so brilliant in their simplicity that you wished they would have worked. In 1959, social psychologist Milton Rokeach set up a confrontation between three patients i...
Some scientists will just do about anything to get their point across. In 1963, neurophysiologist Jose Delgado entered a bull fighting arena, armed only with a small radio transmitter. The fighting b...
Despite the fact that we can thank science for almost all technological advances in human history, it is often misunderstood, misrepresented and misused in the media. In 2003 British doctor Ben Golda...
If you thought that dripping cosmetics into the eyes of innocent rabbits belongs to history, we will have to disappoint you. In many parts of the world, laboratory animals are still being used to tes...
The overal trend in the western world is to reduce packaging and therefore reduce the amount of waste involved with getting us our food and non-food products. Yet at the same time in many parts of th...
A new study published in Psychological Science shows that an established hierarchy within a group reduces conflicts and boosts productivity. An appropriate distribution of the power helps people coor...
In Schöneberg, one of the beautiful gallery neighbourhoods in Berlin, three established German artists discuss the question of a possible relationship between art and science. They are presenting the...
Their actual name is Grand Falls, but they are known as ‘Chocolate Falls’ due to their extremely muddy flow. Taller than Niagara Falls, they are located in the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. W...
The world is full of of embarrassing conditions you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. Every week, Carian discusses one. This week: Persistent Sexual Arousal Disorder. Michelle Thompson’s life ...
When you’re out in the sun do you use sun tan lotion? Do you reach for the SPF 50 and higher because you believe the bigger the number the safer you are from the sun’s rays? Are you using...
It will be only in Japan, where Softbank Corp, Japan’s No. 3 mobile phone operator, has developed a new smartphone that includes a radiation detector. The phone, part of the company’s ‘Pantone ...
National Geographic reader James Morgan captured this shot of Enal, a young sea nomad from Sulawesi, Indonesia, clinging onto the tail of a tawny nurse shark. The photo is one of the submissions to t...
For those living on the edge: 13 alternative ways to get high. Some have already proven to be lethal, so choose wisely when you’re ready for something new. Source: Infographic Beast
“Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.” – Jean-Paul Sartre Source: Wikiquote Photo: generationrose / flickr
Professor Sergey Gavrilets, the author of the study, maintains that males who were unable to compete with ‘alpha males’ initiated a sexual revolution that led to monogamous society. These low-ranking...
Just five months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, scientists have found bluefin tuna off the Californian coast contaminated with radioactive materials that leaked from the Japanese nuclear plant...
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