There Are Tiny Bugs Living On Your Face Right Now
In 2004, Dove, an American cosmetics company based in New Jersey, launched its Real Beauty campaign. The campaign was designed to show that the criteria used to determine whether or…
Science
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Scientists Create Benches That Can Clean As Much Air As A Small Forest
London has long suffered from poor air quality, dating back from Medieval times to the Great Smog, and seems to have never recovered. The capital city usually breaks the air…
Scientists Develop Contact Lenses That Can Change Focus And Zoom When You Blink
When Salvino d’Armate invented eyeglasses circa 1285, he probably couldn’t have imagined that his invention would still be helping people in the twenty-first century. Roughly sixty-four percent of the world’s…
Baltimore’s “Mr Trash Wheel” Has Already Scooped Up 150 Miles Of Cigarette Butts From Their Harbour
Millions of pounds of trash floats in the Baltimore harbour, harming fish and wildlife in the area, but a solution to this plastic pollution has been found in the form…
Michigan Man Discovers Mysterious Glow in the Dark Stones
Walking along the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in June 2017, Eric Rintamaki saw something unusual: stones that were glowing in the dark. A self-professed “rock hound”,…
Waste House: The House Built From A Landfill
What do you do with your old toothbrushes and jeans? Most of us would throw them away only to end up in landfill and our oceans. However, at the University…
16-Psyche: The Asteroid That Could Collapse The World Economy
Since NASA has announced plans for its upcoming mission launch in 2022, the world has been getting psyched to meet Psyche. But this isn’t Cupid’s lover who was killed by…
Canadian Students Create Device That Can Generate Electricity From Snowfall
With an energy crisis looming, scientists are turning an eye to another source of clean, renewable energy: Snow. Yes, snow is electrically charged. People who live in snowy climates may…
Good News Everyone: Two Extinct Animal Species Have Returned To The World
In a world with 16,306 endangered plant and animal species facing the threat of extinction, here’s a bit of good news: two animal species which had been declared extinct have…
Amherst Is The First Town To Get 100% Electric School Busses
On February 15, 2019, thousands of students in over one hundred countries, including the United States, Germany, England, and Uganda, went on school strikes to protest the U.S. Congress’ refusal…