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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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A burglar who left a fecal surprise for the owner of a New Mexico home might have landed himself back behind bars....
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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....