science

  • The perfect handshake?

      A good handshake, it seems, could be all it takes to ‘seal the deal’ with a future employer. British Scientists from Manchester University have stopped navel gazing long enough to unveil a mathematical formula for the ‘perfect handshake’. PH = ? (e2 + ve2)(d2) + (cg + dr)2...
  • High school students tricked into working for NASA

    When it comes to inventive teachers, one could argue that don’t come much craftier than Brookline, Massachusetts high school science teacher Ron Dantowitz. He prepared a mock scenario for his three best students, James Breitmeyer, Brigitte Berman, and Yiannis Karavas in which they had to capture a spacecraft as...
  • NASA Footage Shows Sun Swallowing a Comet

    NASA’s SOHO spacecraft recorded an interesting sight on April 10, 2010. A comet, unnamed as it was previously unknown, approached the sun but came a little too close – causing it to be swallowed up, never to be seen again. 1. The Approach You can see the comet approaching...
  • Octopus Uses Coconut Shell as Exoskeleton

    Video footage has emerged of octopi exhibiting some rather fascinating learned behavior; they were carrying coconut shells to use for their own protection. Researchers observed veined octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) in Indonesia carrying coconut shells that were slightly larger than their 8-centimeter-wide bodies. When they needed to stop in exposed...
  • Canadian Porn Study Shelved Due To Lack Of Non-viewers

    A University of Montreal researcher announced that he was forced to drastically alter a pornography study as he was not able to find any adult men who had never viewed erotic material. Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse told the Sun: The objective of my work is to observe the impact...
  • Radio Controlled Helicopter Powered By “Microwave Death Ray”

    Can a microwave oven be used to power a radio controlled helicopter? That is the question that Bang Goes The Theory’s Jem set out to answer, and answer it he did....
  • Conspiracy Theorists Speculate Large Hadron Collider Sabotaged From Future

    Physicists Dr Holger Bech Nielsen from Denmark and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan have theorized that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) startup failed because it was sabotaged from the future....
  • Fecal Evidence Snags Suspected Burglar

    A burglar who left a fecal surprise for the owner of a New Mexico home might have landed himself back behind bars....
  • Monkeys Affected By Monkey Music, Calmed By Metallica

    While most animals do not appreciate music, a recent study published in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters showed that monkeys, more particularly cotton-top tamarins, do; and their musical preference is likely to surprise a few people....