The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies And Hijacks Their Mind
Imagine your body being manipulated like a puppet while your conscious brain watches. For some species of ants, this seemingly sci-fi scenario is a frequent…
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Monthly Archive: January 2018
A Technique For Predicting How To Better Grow Rare, Endangered, And Recalcitrant Plants
Many people have heard about two seemingly disparate concepts: recalcitrant (or difficult to grow) plants and liquid chromatography. Plant tissue culture or in vitro culture…
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Particle Acceleration On The Sun
There are two major enigmas in the outer solar atmosphere, the corona, that have persisted over many decades. Solar flares are explosions above the solar…
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Analyzing How Tea And Mint Infusion Effects Element Content In Beverages
Popular medicinal plants and their infusions have been the subject of significant scientific interest due to their therapeutic value for the prevention and treatment of…
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A New Scenario For The Formation Of Globular Clusters
Globular clusters are densely packed, spherical agglomerations of dim, very old, small stars. They reached some notoriety in the eighties because, according to some account,…
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An Amateur Astronomer Found NASA’s Long Lost IMAGE Satellite?
Back in 2000, NASA launched a satellite, the Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration satellite (called IMAGE) and after 5 years NASA lost contact with the satellite. The satellite’s…
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Massive Dinosaur Uncovered Hints At Lost Link Between Africa And Europe
Though scientists have long known that Africa was home to unique species of dinosaurs not found anywhere else, little is known about how they got…
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Cytoplasm Function
The function of cytoplasm is to act as the medium that fills your cells, it is a neutral jelly-like substance that acts to protect and…
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Exercise Fluid Balance – Pints Vs. Pounds
“A pint is a pound the world around.” This common expression is true when talking about a pint of water, which weighs one pound. It…
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Can Bell’s Theorem Be Disproved?
Bell’s theorem (BT) was formulated in 1964 as a continuation of the 1935 Einstein, Podolski, Rosen (EPR) criticism on the completeness of quantum mechanics (QM)….
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Building Performance Assessment For Earthquakes Breaks New Ground With Study On Critical Orientation Using Lateral Force Analysis
One of the main purposes of the earthquake-related standards (e.g. EAK 2003; CEN 2004; Regulatory Guide 1.92 2006; NTC 2008; ASCE 2014) is to provide…
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