What Are Convection Currents?
Convection currents are the movement of fluid as a result of differential heating or convection. In the case of the Earth, convection currents refer to…
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Yearly Archive: 2018
The Science Is In: Swearing Is Good For You
Although many people may still object to the use of bad language, scientists are now saying that people who swear may be healthier than those…
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A Wolf Was Spotted In Belgium For The First Time In Over A Century
Indicating its hopeful recovery, a Eurasian wolf has been seen in the forests of Belgium for the first time in 100 years. In fairy tales and bedtime…
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Bodies Of Water: Complete List
Bodies of water come in different shapes and sizes from small ponds to rivers and expansive oceans. Each body of water contains a different ecosystem…
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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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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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