New research suggests that monkeys, like humans, may be engaged in the process of self-adaptation, altering their own evolutionary and physiological pathways through the way they interact with each other. It has long been recognized that animal rearing promotes certain physical features that are not found in their wild counterparts. …
Read More »The Bepi Colombo probe just took a weirdly closed video of Venus, just like it did F.D.
Two years after he left Earth, Mercury probe Bepi Colombo has completed the first of its first flyby of Venus. The maneuver spacecraft is designed to speed up its journey – but it’s also a great opportunity to pass a little science. As it rotates on a curved path around …
Read More »Researchers have found another ‘key’ that makes the new coronavirus so contagious
It has been 17 years since the coronavirus SARS-Kovi threatened a global epidemic. Thanks to the rapid efforts to eradicate the infection, the world’s population survived the worst. This time we were not so lucky. The only question that makes SARS-CoV-2 more contagious than its predecessor is that we are …
Read More »You’ve given Vantaablake a herd. Scientists just made ‘Super White’, and that’s pretty cool
Scientists have created a super white paint called Vantablake’s Yang to Yin. Ultra black materials today can absorb more than .9999.66 percent sunlight, this new super white coat can reflect .5..5 percent of all the photons it strikes. Instead of heating under direct light, items painted with this new acrylic …
Read More »In Finland, Deckers created the ‘Forest Floor’, and it replaced the children’s immune systems.
According to a small new experiment, playing through the greenery and debris of Mini Forest’s undergrowth for just a month may be enough to change a child’s immune system. When daycare workers in Finland do not bring in workers, cultivate forest lands such as dwarf heather and blueberries, and allow …
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