You learn something new every day, and today, I learned that when you burn fat, you actually lose most of it (80%) by breathing it out in the form of carbon dioxide. The rest goes out of your body in liquid form, through your pee, sweat, and other bodily fluids. So for every 10 kilograms […]
A simple and quick explanation on how plate tectonics really work by the folks over at Minute Earth. [MinuteEarth]
Why are we ticklish? And did you know that “ticklishness” is composed of two phenomenon? Knismesis, which all animals have, including us, and gargalesis, which only affects primates. [SciShow]
A domino can knock over another domino about 1.5x larger than itself. A chain of dominoes of increasing size makes a kind of mechanical chain reaction that starts with a tiny push and knocks down an impressively large domino. [Stephen Morris | Via TA]
Can dogs actually understand what we’re saying when we talk to them? Recent research show that the creatures that we’ve been selectively breeding from wolves to what they are today for the past 10,000 years might know more about our language and emotions that we might think! [It’s Okay To Be Smart]
Yesterday, we reported that NASA discovered eight new exoplanets, including three that have qualified for NASA’s Kepler Hall of Fame for being “Earth-like.” In honor of this discovery, here are some fun travel posters from NASA for three alien worlds, one of which is potentially habitable: Kepler-16b, HD 40307g, and Kepler-186f. Like Luke Skywalker’s planet […]
It’s scientifically proven: Nice guys (and people!) always end up finishing first, even if it takes them some time to do so. [ASAP Science]
The Kepler space telescope has discovered its 1000th exoplanet, including one that’s been described as the most Earth-like to date. Meanwhile astronomers have confirmed the theory that the speed at which a star spins shows its age. Nasa announced this week that Kepler has discovered another eight exoplanets (a planet from outside our solar system), […]