Have you ever wondered how accurate physics is in cartoons. “Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation”; “Everything falls faster than an anvil”.
While it might not heal severe injuries with the speed of a Marvel superhero, this new technology could radically reduce the time it takes for small cuts to recover.
The winners have been announced for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Definitely gets a few giggles.
Spectacular art on a nano scale (requires access to specialist chemicals, compounds and tools, but hey, why not?).
Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing” with quicklime.
Usually, an organism’s cells all carry the same genes. In yellow crazy ants, some cells carry only maternal and others only paternal genetic material. Chimerism can happen by accident in nature but these ants rely on chimerism to exist.
Distilling complex topics into simple language can result in oversimplifications that may actually end up being lies…
Paper-mills (fake journal article factories) are undermining the integrity of science.
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