By Heidi Harley

science / science - 6 years ago

Nepal attempts record with a Dead Sea of plastic bags

Young Nepalis created a map of the Dead Sea with used plastic bags Wednesday in a bid to set a new international record and raise awareness about the vast volumes polluting the world's oceans. Volunteers tied 100,000 colourful used plastic bags on a metal grid 20 metres (65 feet) long and five metr...

science / science - 6 years ago

This Is Why You Feel Like Dancing When You Eat

Some call it a happy dance, some people describe it more like a wiggle, but the phenomenon of dancing when eating something truly delicious isn’t as strange or rare as it might seem. Bond does this every time he’s excited, mostly about food.

science / science - 6 years ago

All goals are self-defeating except one

The late physicist Richard Feynman famously won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics. But here’s something most people don’t know about him: He was also a world-class safecracker. In the 1940s, in the New Mexico Desert, Feynman was bored while working on the Manhattan project that w...

science / science - 6 years ago

Toothed giant rips through Alps despite rail link protests

Saint-Martin-la-Porte (France) (AFP) - There is a fierce nip in the air outside, but inside the temperature is almost tropical and the further you advance into the dark, the louder the noise becomes. This is the heart of the Lyon to Turin high-speed train link, where a tunnel boring machine is chom...

science / science - 6 years ago

Round boys were the best animal internet trend of 2018

Animals have always been beloved by the internet. First there were cats, last year there were dogs (or "doggos," which gained official-word status thanks to the Merriam-Webster dictionary ), and in 2018 there were round boys. "They are defined not by their species, nor by some abstrac...

science / science - 6 years ago

China's unbridled export of coal power imperils climate goals

The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from these Chinese-backed plants could cripple global efforts to rein in global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels -- especially coal, analysts warn. "China is a world leader in terms of embracing the policy and investment needs to progressively decarbo...