Nowadays, it’s totally cliché to describe a lady as ‘one in a million’. A little creativity would be appreciated. However, no one was trying to be cute or sweet when they described the late Rose Marie Bentley as ‘one in fifty million’. Doctors estimated that probably one out of 50 million people in the world...

Many people spend their lives waiting to be happy.  You may think, “if only I had more money,” or “could lose weight,” or you fill in the blank, then I would be happy. Humans are always searching for the next thing, or next achievement, that will make us happy. The problem is, very shortly after...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Alabama at Birmingham found a link between graying hair in mice and the activation of the innate immune system. Specifically, the authors of the study identified a connection between genes associated with hair color and genes that sound the alarm in the event of...

Swedish authorities arrested a seventy-year-old woman this week. Why? Apparently, she has been holding her son captive in their apartment for nearly thirty years. Man Locked in Apartment According to the Stockholm police, one of the man’s relatives discovered him in the apartment last month when his mother was in the hospital. The family member...

Although they seem vastly different, the human brain and the universe actually have a surprising amount in common. Scientists have demonstrated this before, in an image that occasionally makes its rounds on the internet. The photo shows a human neuron and a simulated galaxy cluster. Side-by-side, the two look shockingly alike [1]. Two scientists from...

According to reports from Intelligent Living, an electrical and mechanical engineer from Mexico, Ramón Martín Espinosa Solís, has developed a new building material called Eco Plastico Ambiental that allows the construction of homes resistant to seismic movements from the earth [1].  The future is now. Earthquake resistant houses are not a new concept. Many construction...

Employees at the Friends for Life Animal Shelter in Houston, Texas have been encountering a unique problem for the past several months: the door to the shelter’s senior cat room kept mysteriously opening, allowing the cats inside to wander around the shelter. What was going on? Was it an inattentive worker, a ghost, or something...

We have been sending both animals and humans alike into space for decades to help us discover and understand more about the fascinating solar system that surrounds us. But scientists want to learn about more than just the stars and planets. One of the most prominent questions scientists are asking is: “What happens to the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has proved to be a useful ally in the battle against antibiotic resistance. A powerful antibiotic that’s even able to kill superbugs has been discovered thanks to a machine-learning algorithm  Researchers from MIT used a novel computer algorithm to sift through a vast digital archive of over 100 million chemical compounds and spot those that...

Every now and then, the Internet “discovers” something you just sort of assumed everyone knew.  Like, for example, that pufferfish inflate themselves with water and not air. It seems logical that people would assume that fish – which famously remain underwater when they are not dead – fill up with water when they inflate themselves.  But apparently vast swathes...

If you’ve ever picked up a brick or a piece of wood that’s been lying in the dirt for a while, you’re probably familiar with the tiny critters with the hard black shell you found attached to the bottom of it. These humble little creatures that curl up into a ball when prodded may seem...

Most people have heard of the dangers of encountering venomous animals in the wild—specifically, snakes and spiders. However, one particular spider, the black widow, may not be as lethal as previously believed. Yet, it’s still a bad idea to encourage them to bite because the effects can be long-lasting. Either way, a YouTube channel popular...