Granny-Groping Ghost Explained by Psychology
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
A British woman claims she has been touched and groped by an unseen presence at night and suspects her assailant is a perverted poltergeist.
Doris Birch, a grandmother in Herne Bay, England, told ThisIsKent.co.uk, "It's like an octopus. It started four months ago. I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands. I kicked frantically and it went away. Next time it came I hurled the duvet onto the floor!
[Read More]Hair Spray vs. Ozone? Trump Makes Outdated Complaint
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
At a rally on Thursday in West Virginia, presidential candidate Donald Trump aired grievances over a product that appears to play a role in his daily life: hair spray.
"You know, you're not allowed to hair spray anymore because it affects the ozone," Trump said. "Hair spray's not like it used to be. It used to be real good," he added.
But does hair spray really still affect the ozone layer?
[Read More]How Doctors Treated the Thai Boys in the Harrowing Minutes After They Were Freed from Cave
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
The harrowing rescue of 12 boys and their coach from a cave in Thailand captured the world's attention last summer. But after the extraordinary feat to get them out of the cave, the work was far from over: The boys and their coach needed urgent medical care to prevent the occurrence of critical health issues such as hypothermia, according to a new report.
The brief report, published today (April 3) in the The New England Journal of Medicine, describes how the boys and their coach were treated immediately after they were pulled from the cave, before they were transported to a hospital via helicopter or ambulance.
[Read More]Human Ancestor Mated with 'Ghost Lineage' And the Proof Is in Your Spit
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
A protein that helps make human spit slimy reveals signs that the ancestors of modern humans interbred with an extinct human lineage that was an even more distant relation than Neanderthals, a new study finds.
The ancestors of modern humans once shared the world with ancient human lineages such as the Neanderthals, the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, as well as the Denisovans, which might have once roamed a vast range stretching from Siberia to Southeast Asia.
[Read More]Noisy Shrimp Rumble on the Ocean Floor
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
The ocean floor is alive with sound, as snaps, squeaks, hums, grunts and rasps emanate from the animals that inhabit this dimly lit environment. New research has added another contribution to this ruckus: rumbling sounds made by the California mantis shrimp, a burrow-dwelling, predatory crustacean about 8 to 10 inches (20 to 25 centimeters) long.
The shrimps' sounds had previously been studied in a laboratory, where researchers found that half of the dozen males made low-frequency rumbling noises, while the females remained silent.
[Read More]Orangutans Nurse Their Babies For 8 Years
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
For American parents, breast-feeding past a year or two tends to be a fraught topic. Orangutan mamas, on the other hand, are in it for the long haul: New research finds that orangutan babies nurse for eight years or more.
Though orangutans were known to be long-term lactaters, the new study published today (May 17) in the journal Science Advances revealed nursing behavior extending more than a year past what had previously been reported.
[Read More]Super space sunblock made from skin pigment could shield astronauts from radiation
Posted on March 18, 2023
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For astronauts preparing to spend a long summer vacation on Mars, hats and umbrellas might not be enough to protect them from the sun’s harsh rays.
And just like beachgoers slathering on sunscreen, explorers on the moon or Mars may one day shield themselves using creams containing a new bioengineered material called selenomelanin, created by enriching the natural pigment melanin with the metal selenium.
Outside the Earth’s protective magnetic field, humans are exposed to many types of dangerous radiation, according to NASA.
[Read More]The da Vinci Code for Flight
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
The history of manned flight often begins with the 15th Century drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. He envisioned a machine with flapping wings powered by the human body.
Da Vinci's ornithopter, as it was called, was not built in his lifetime. Ornithopters have been a bit of a technological dead-end. There have been many failed attempts to mimic the flight of birds.
Now a group led by James DeLaurier at the University of Toronto is trying to make this 500-year-old dream a reality.
[Read More]The Energy Debates: Geothermal Energy
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Editor's Note: "The Energy Debates" is a LiveScience series about the pros, cons, policy debates, myths and facts related to various alternative energy ideas. We invite you to join the debate by commenting directly on each article. The Facts An extraordinary amount of heat is trapped below Earth's surface, as erupting volcanoes show with their violence. Geothermal energy seeks to use this heat to generate electricity and warm up buildings and roads.
[Read More]This House Was 3D Printed in Less Than 24 Hours
Posted on March 18, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
A new house has been erected in a town outside Moscow, but this home was not built in the traditional sense — it was constructed with 3D printing.
The first 3D-printed residential home, engineered by the tech startup Apis Cor, took less than a day to construct and cost under $11,000 to complete. A mobile 3D printer created the building's concrete walls and partitions as a fully connected structure, rather than printing the building in panels at an off-site facility as is usually done, the company said.
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