- New data could help Canada stake claim to a highly disputed area of the Arctic seabed
- People can see the future
- An octopus has only six arms
- Ugly Betty will never come out on top
- Dogs pick up yawning from their owners
- Neanderthals and modern humans shared an ancient ancestor who lived about 660,000 years ago
- Elderly people should take probiotic supplements
- Only about 20 percent of the energy stored in a car’s gas tank is available to propel the vehicle
- The North Pole may be completely ice-free later this summer as global warming melts Arctic ice
- Only 4% of the total energy density in the universe can be accounted for
- Chlorine is one of the most toxic natural elements
- The gingerols in Aframomum are related to the properties in ginger that prevent nausea
- The very first organisms to dare engage in sex were more like Adam and Steve than Adam and Eve
- The Sun is pretty big; the Moon, however, is not so big
- Men are not going extinct
- Comets are balls of ice and rock made of debris left over from the formation of the outer planets some 4.6 billion years ago
- A human brain is capable of processing an enormous amount of information
- The mosquito alone spreads more disease and causes more health problems for more people than any other single entity
- Humans may have occupied Oregon’s diverse landscapes for more than 15,000 years
- Electromagnetic field hypersensitivity currently affects about 3% of the population
- Holbox has the highest concentration of whale sharks in the world
- Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica
- A total solar eclipse will occur on August 1, 2008 and it can be witnessed from the entire territory of Vietnam
- Meandering streams occur when a flowing river or stream cannot dig its channel any deeper as if it flows over
- As the beam containing the song propagates across the universe, the signal could theoretically be picked up by anyone or anything with the right equipment
- Kangaroo farts are fighting global warming, thanks to a special bacteria in their stomachs
- 4,500,000,000 years ago our little planet was born
- The latest findings indicate that Earth is warming faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years
- The husks of the cocoa beans that chocolate is made from contains an antibacterial agent that fights plaque
- A positive outlook is not enough
- At least 52 new species of animals and plants have been identified this past year on the island of Borneo
- Conservationists should become palm oil farmers themselves
- The world’s chocolate supplies are under serious threat
- The Mars Phoenix lander uncovers ice
- California at the time had the dirtiest air in the nation, and today, 90 percent of Californians still breathe unhealthful air
- Wild flowers could provide environmentally friendly biofuel
- A daily dose of yummy dark chocolate may help patients suffering from the chronic fatigue syndrome
- Hidden talents can be stimulated using magnetism
- Water cooling beats air-cooled systems
- Birds have the right equipment for emotion
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Poll: According to Scientists... | Comments]
[Advertisement] PingPongPie - the art of linkbaiting and social media marketing
