Science Fact of the Day 6.7.12
Though you may guess that the majority of the Earth is made up of something metallic like aluminum or something …
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Science Fact of the Day 6.6.12
Instead of the Earth being a perfect sphere, due to gravitational and rotational forces, a simplified shape of Earth more …
Science Fact of the Day 6.5.12
Technically, black panthers do not exist. The (black) panther is a melanistic variant of other cats, like the jaguar, cougar, …
Science Fact of the Day 6.4.12
Octopi are masters of disguise: How do these invertebrates manage this quick-change feat? Small pigment-filled cells, called chromatophores, and reflective …
Science Fact of the Day 6.3.12
A Boeing 747 has a maximum fuel capacity of 48,445 U.S. gal (183,380 L). The average American light-duty car in …
Science Fact of the Day 6.2.12
Large amounts of water are stored in the ground. The water is still moving, possibly very slowly, and it is …
Science Fact of the Day 6.1.12
Radar is an abbreviation of Radio Detection And Ranging. For radar to function, the radar dish or antenna transmits pulses …
Science Fact of the Day 5.31.12
The largest animals to have ever lived–blue whales–while feeding on the some of the smallest animals–krill–can swallow half a million …
Science Fact of the Day 5.30.12
Geophagia—the practice of eating dirt, especially claylike soils, is something animals and people have been doing for millennia. The standard …
Science Fact of the Day 5.29.12
The two halves of a rorqual’s lower jaw–the jaw bones of the blue, fin and humpback whales–are the largest bones …
Science Fact of the Day 5.28.12
“The sensitive plant” or Mimosa pudica, has a defensive mechanism where it reflexively folds itself in response to heating, touching, …
Science Fact of the Day 5.27.12
If you look closely at the inner pink lobes of the Venus flytrap’s (Dionaea muscipula) trap, you will see several …
Science Fact of the Day 5.26.12
Seemingly a tribute to our favorite blue hedgehog of game console’s past, scientists have named the gene which codes for …
Science Fact of the Day 5.25.12
Though it may seem like a snake is basically all neck, all snakes do in fact have a neck. This …
Science Fact of the Day 5.24.12
Leech teeth are strong enough to cut through elephant skin. Leech teeth leave a characteristic triangular incision, and also look …
Science Fact of the Day 5.22.12
You think an operating room is clean? Well…it is. You have to keep out all of the potentially harmful bacteria. …
Science Fact of the Day 5.21.12
The air temperature in the sun and in the shade are actually the same temperature. The difference that you would …
Science Fact of the Day 5.20.12
Lest you think that the yearly flu isn’t a serious matter, the “Spanish flu” outbreak of 1918 killed 675,000 Americans …
Science Fact of the Day 5.19.12
When you don’t clean your plate, microbes feast. And Americans are awfully good at feeding microbes, wasting some 222 million …
Science Fact of the Day 5.18.12
The hippocampus is the part of your brain that plays an important role in the consolidation of information from short-term …
