Playing at a theater near you . . . the first ever electron captured on film.
Previously, scientists had only been able to see electrons indirectly, resulting in murky images. Now, using very short flashes of light and a powerful laser to extract electrons from atoms, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have figured out […]
Archive for February, 2008
And the Oscar goes to . . . the electron
Published February 25th, 2008 in Bizarre and Innovation. 1 CommentBehold the water shrew–the world’s smallest diving mammal.
Now, the fact that water shrews are about half the size of your average mouse does not make them particularly weird. It’s also not de-facto bizarre that the water shrew’s hyper-speed metabolism means that it can starve do death if it goes without eating for even a […]
Guess which animal has the longest penis proportionate to its body size? It’s not the blue whale. Elephant? Nope. Maybe the giraffe?
Wrong again. The award for longest penis goes to . . . the barnacle. That’s right, the barnacle–an arthropod that fixes onto a rocky surface and lives inside a […]
China is busy preparing for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, building stadiums, expanding the Beijing subway system, trying to control the weather.
That’s right: control the weather. Based on weather patterns over the past few decades, there’s a 50/50 chance that it’ll rain during the opening ceremonies. Because there’s nothing like a downpour to […]