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Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free?
Has Plastoline made gasoline renewable and free?
@naturejab is a content creator who's claimed to be able to recycle plastic into a fuel dubbed "plastoline"...
Could Aliens be Living in Our Solar System?
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/
Water: the ultimate resource. We depend on it to survive, but Earth is not the only place with a substantial amount of...
When Citrus Gets Lethal
So, the other day I got a new prescription, and as I skimmed through the 300 pages of side effect warnings (okay… maybe it...
Badass Biology: Humanity’s Most Important Adaptation
Badass Biology: Humanity’s most badass adaptation
At some point, modern humans started believing that we are somehow special, that we are the center of creation...
The Art of Getting Robbed with Gringo Perdido
As a US citizen who travels internationally to conduct research, I’m well aware of the perception that gringos = $$. Sometimes that perception is...
Badass Biology: Bat Echolocation
Vision is awesomely complicated. A lot of animals, like the hawk, use vision to detect important environmental cues from vast distances. They use complex...
Megalodon: Fact or Fiction?
Barbies? Yea right. Doll Houses? Please. I was never the little girl who played with mini tea cups and pretended my stuffed animals were...