Tag: #Bestof2017
Best of 2017 // #97: The First Flower
Without any sort of preserved fossils or evidence for what it may have looked like, researchers who have been hunting for the first flowering...
Best of 2017 // #98: Eggs, Explained
The Eggs we all know and love for breakfast span a range of colours, shapes and sizes. That range, however, pales in comparison to...
Best of 2017 // #99: Robo-Snake
With nothing more than a puff of air, this creepy robot can manoeuvre itself into an insane variety of places.
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Best of 2017 // #100: 1900’s Pentagon Mystery
Tiles made of regular pentagons - shapes with equal sides and angles - cannot completely cover an infinite plane, no matter how you arrange...
Best of 2017 // #90: Smart Sign Language
'Talking' in American Sign Language takes a lot of dexterity from human hands. Even the individual letters of the alphabet often take all five...
Best of 2017 // #91: Music to my Mind
Thomas Deuel has experience dealing with the brain, being both a Jazz musician and a Neurologist a the Swedish Medial Centre in Seattle. He...
Best of 2017 // #92: Magnetic Moon
Recent tests on a rock from the Moon brought back by Apollo 15 astronauts revealed surprising evidence indicating a magnetic field on the moon...
Best of 2017 // #93: Water is Weird
Water is weird. It expands when cooled, has a strange boiling point, and in June it got weirder. Publishing a paper in the Proceedings...
Best of 2017 // #88: Water From Thin Air
Researchers have managed to create a new material that can pull drinkable water out of thin air, using zero power. Using a mesh, which...
Best of 2017 // #87: Naked Mole Rats Don’t Need Air
Naked Mole Rats were already weird. They got even weirder this past year when it was discovered that these cold-blooded, long-lived, pain-immune, cancer-resistant rats...
