The iconic vision of the technological, space-age future used to be the personal jet pack–a strap-on device that would allow people to zip around the clouds, presumably wherever and whenever they liked.
The jet pack never quite happened, but the dream still has legs. And soon it might come equipped with rotor blades, too. A […]
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My kids (two boys, 7-year-old-twins) recently made a bird feeder. We painted it, hung it up in the backyard, and waited for birds to come. Now that spring is here, there are more and more birds at the feeder every morning. It’s nice to watch them, my kids learn about nature, the […]
Evolution is something happens over millions of years, right? Slowly, over eons of time, primates evolve into hominids, hominids in proto-humans, proto-humans into modern homo sapiens.
But evolution doesn’t always unfold at such a crawling pace. Take, for example, the case of several Italian wall lizards left on a small island off […]
Scientists and engineers at MIT have created a new, experimental robot called Nexi that can appear to express human emotions like anger, surprise and sadness through a series of facial expressions.
The machine is an MDS robot, which stands for mobile, dexterous and social. And, indeed, as you can see in this clip, […]
What you see in the picture to the left is not a muppet. It looks like one, though, doesn’t it? What you’re seeing is a newly discovered fish with a flat face forward-looking eyes and leg-like fins that it uses to crawl along coral reefs.
This weird fish is a kind of […]
When I was a kid, one of the coolest posters I had in my room was of a sperm whale locked in a death struggle with a giant squid. (Yes, I was a nerdy kid.) And always wondered who came out ahead. the whale had size, obviously, and strength. And teeth, […]
Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Dinosaurs didn’t actually live hundreds of millions of years ago. No. Rather, they were around as recently as about 6000 years ago, when the world was created out of chaos. In fact, dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden with Adam, Eve and all the […]
Is this man pregnant? Not really. But sort of. There is, in fact, a fetus inside his distended belly. But it’s the fetus of his unborn, malformed twin brother.
I know this sounds like bad science fiction or something straight out of the pages of the National Inquirer. But it’s legit.
Here’s […]
Dolphins are known to be friendly, intelligent and social. But altruistic?
Yes, apparently. At least if you’re a pygmy whale.
Just yesterday, a dolphin known as Moko helped save two pygmy whales–a mom and her calf–who were in danger of being stranded on a beach on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island.
Rescue workers […]
A movie called “Expelled,” pitting intelligent design against Darwinism and featuring actor and conservative writer Ben Stein, is due out in theaters this April.
Let’s begin by acknowledging that movie trailers can be misleading. Perhaps this film is a fair-minded, even handed investigation of the place of religion in academic science. As […]