This Is Why Cats Always Land On Their Feet
Everyone has heard that cats always land on their feet, but scientists have been trying to figure out exactly how they do it for more than 300 years. A new study published in The Anatomical Record has brought researchers a meaningful step closer to an answer, and the secret turns out to be hiding in […]
The Most Expensive Art Purchases In Its History
Italy just made one of the most significant art purchases in its history, spending nearly 35 million dollars to permanently acquire a rare portrait painted by the Baroque master Caravaggio more than 400 years ago. The painting, known as Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, depicts a young clergyman who would later become Pope Urban VIII, […]
Meet Scout The Dog Who Finds Other Lost Dogs
When a dog goes missing in Minnesota, a group of dedicated volunteers drops everything and gets to work. The Retrievers, a fully volunteer organization based in Minneapolis, has made it their mission to reunite lost dogs with their families, taking each case from the first frantic phone call all the way through to a happy […]
What Albert Einstein Played With As A Child Will Surprise You
Long before Albert Einstein developed his world-changing theories about space, time and the structure of the universe, he spent his childhood hours doing something far more ordinary: stacking tiny stone-like blocks on the floor of his family home in Germany. The toy set was called an Anchor Stone Building Set, a German construction toy from […]
Scientists Just Woke Up A Frozen Brain
In a German laboratory scientists just pulled off something that sounds like it belongs in a science fiction story: they froze living brain tissue to temperatures colder than the harshest Antarctic winter, kept it there for a full week, and then watched electrical activity return when it was carefully warmed back up. The research, led […]
Archaeologists Unsealed A Secret Egyptian Chamber
Deep beneath the sands near Luxor, Egypt, archaeologists have pried open a hidden chamber sealed for thousands of years and found something even they were not fully prepared for. Inside the rock-cut room, carved directly into the bedrock of the ancient Theban Necropolis on the west bank of the Nile, were 22 painted wooden coffins […]
DoorDash Revolutionizes Family Travel With On-Demand Essentials Delivery Service
DoorDash has expanded beyond restaurant delivery into travel convenience, launching a service that delivers forgotten essentials directly to hotels and vacation rentals across the country. The new offering addresses one of family travel’s most frustrating challenges: realizing you’ve left something critical at home and having to abandon vacation plans for emergency store runs. Through partnerships […]
A Hidden Web Of Galaxies Just Came Into View For The First Time
For the first time, astronomers have created a three-dimensional map of the universe from 10 billion years ago that reveals not just the brightest galaxies, but the vast, faintly glowing web of smaller galaxies and gas clouds that connects them. Until now, traditional telescopes could only spot the cosmic equivalent of major cities, the biggest, […]
A Joke That Led To A 1000 Year Old Discovery
It started as an offhand joke between colleagues, but what French researcher Victor Gysembergh actually stumbled upon turned out to be one of the most remarkable manuscript discoveries in recent memory. While casually searching an online archive for ancient texts in the central French city of Blois, Gysembergh spotted something that made him look twice: […]
Scientists May Have Found a Way to Actually Reverse Osteoporosis
Scientists may have found a new way to not just slow osteoporosis but actually reverse it, and the discovery centers on a single cell receptor that acts like an on and off switch for bone building. Researchers from the University of Leipzig in Germany and Shandong University in China identified a receptor called GPR133 as […]