More Real Science Discoveries

Engineers, at the University of Leeds, have developed a new material that mimics human cartilage. The board of regents has pulled funding calling the material “unnecessarily hurtful towards human cartilage”. ☺ University of Hiroshima scientists announced recently that they are moving closer to the next generation of fuel-cell technology. They plan to achieve this by […]

Fun Facts about Mercury

If you weighed yourself on Earth and then went to Mercury, you’d weigh 38 percent of what you weighed on Earth, even less if you didn’t eat much on the trip. A day on Mercury lasts 176 Earth-days. This means when you go home on Friday night, you don’t have to go back to work […]

I Have the Foresight to Talk about the Hubble Telescope

January 1994: The Mystery Nebula: That’s right, the Hubble Telescope discovered a nebula that DOESN’T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING. They tried mixing it in with Rorschach Tests and still not one person could come up with anything… except the “Stabbing Horses with a Syringe Nebula”… August 1994: Planet X: This is a mysterious object that has […]

Flightless Facts about Emus

Emus exist in the wild only in Australia, which is a tough break for them… Female emus, or “femus”, are a little taller than their male counterparts (or “counterpemus”). Femus are also a little wider across the butt and pointing that out gets you a hard peck on the head. Emus can live up to […]