10 Daily Things

Someone in Japan clearly thinks we’re going to believe this tall tale of a paper plane that’s to be thrown to Earth from the International Space Station.
According to the Asahi newspaper (translated here), the University of Tokyo is working with the Japan Origami Airplane Association on a folded paper dart that the teams hope to [...]

Dr. Keith Hopcroft of The Times has put together his list top 9 medical myths. Can having sex cause a heart attack? Are headaches a sign of brain tumors? Is breast self-exam actually useless? Can the flu shot give you the flu? Put your medical knowledge to the test. Check out the myths, inside…
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The body is the basis for everything, but just exactly how does this ingenious Corpus work?
Take a thrilling journey in the 5D-heart theater as a red blood cell, and discover the spectacular operation of the human brain in the brain show. How do your intestines respond to a cheese sandwich? What happens when you sneeze? [...]

A fossil animal locked in Lebanese limestone has been shown to be an extremely precious discovery - a snake with two legs.
Researchers at the European Light Source (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, used intense X-rays to confirm that a creature imprinted on a rock, and with one visible leg, had another appendage buried just under the [...]

One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which?

Below is another photo of the same star, from the Wikipedia entry on V838 Monocerotis. If the [...]

The diagram above shows how Antarctica would look if all the ice melted.

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Emergy is an interactive installation art project bridging sculpture, performance, media arts, architecture, mechanical and electrical engineering. At the nucleus of the installation is a 9ft mechanized rowboat that will generate electricity to power lights in the gallery. The project investigates romantic attachments to traditional concepts of technology, production and land use by using specific [...]

Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.
The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.
A vital barrier between the brain and the main blood [...]

The see-through skin of an inch-long frog reveals her eggs. Native to Venezuela, the frogs lay eggs in bushes and trees overhanging streams. Tadpoles hatch, then tumble into the current to be swept away.

So, if there are see-through frogs in the nature, dr Masayuki Sumida from the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Japan’s Hiroshima University, [...]

Magnesium ignites easily and burns very brightly. In this experiment, you see magnesium ignited in a shell of dry ice - frozen carbon dioxide. Magnesium is able to burn in carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Because of its brilliant light, it was used in early photographic flashes, and it is still used in marine flares and [...]