Nordlingen: The Town That’s Built Inside A Crater
What do you do when a meteor crashes into Earth and leaves a 25 km wide impact crater? Why, you build a town out of it – some 15 million…
Scopolamine: A Real Life Truth Serum
Abbey Conner of Pewaukee, Wisconsin vacationed at a Mexican resort, Playa del Carmen (The Carmen Beach) with her family in 2018. During their stay, Abbey and her brother, Austin, swam…
Musical Garbage Trucks In Taiwan
Here in the western hemisphere, when kids hear a familiar tune ringing through their neighborhood at the same time every day, they eagerly run outside to greet the ice cream…
The Secret: A Book That Leads Readers to Real Buried Treasure
‘The Secret’ is a fantasy book that has been brought to life. The tales from the pages of the novel have surfaced into the world with the clever marketing stunt…
Pestalotiopsis Microspora: The Mushroom That Eats Plastic
It looks like George Carlin is right again, even more than ten years after his death. In his famous “Saving the Planet” standup comedy act, he takes the piss out…
Ben and Jerry’s Has An Ice Cream Graveyard Where They Retire Old Flavors
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the owners and founders of the well known American ice cream chain, Ben and Jerry’s, aren’t solely successful business owners. Their inventive, playfully named ice…
The Oligodynamic Effect: How Doorknobs Clean Themselves
Heavy metals have been a topic of concern in recent years, which is quite justified among toxic metals such as mercury, lead, and aluminum. But did you know other metals…
Gloomy Sunday: The Song That Makes People Kill Themselves
A skilled musician doesn’t only express heartbreak, he universalizes it. Sometimes a song publicizes the heartache of an individual whose name and love story are far less famous than the…
The Peppa Effect: How US Kids Are Developing British Accents
Peppa Pig, the popular British children’s TV show is having a peculiar effect on its younger American viewers. Across America children are picking up the southern English accent of Peppa…
The Mycorrhizal Network: How Trees Secretly Talk To Each Other
It seems mushrooms may be more magical than we thought. Long associated with fairytales and other realms of consciousness, mushrooms are now giving researchers a whole new dimension to explore…