In late September, about 80,000 female Giant South American turtles gathered on their usual nesting beaches to dig nests and lay their eggs. These beaches, along the Guaporé/Inténez River and on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, became alive with baby turtles hatching from mid-December into early January. Footage captures these tiny creatures coming out...
Being on the organ transplant waiting list is a scary situation to be in. First, your life depends on a viable organ to become available in time. Next, you have to have surgery where the healthy organ is transplanted into your body, which comes with a varying level of risk of rejection. Scientists have been...
Global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin recently made a pretty big claim: That they have made a breakthrough with nuclear fusion energy production. The company says they have successfully created a compact nuclear fusion reactor that could essentially solve the world’s sustainable energy problem. The question is, is this actually viable? Some scientists have...
Did you know that a group of scientists developed an artificial womb that actually worked? Not only that, but these artificial wombs successfully grew baby sheep. The scientists who developed it hope their research will one day help with better outcomes for prematurely born human babies. Artificial Womb Successfully Grows Baby Sheep A group of...
Authorities, businesses, and industries in China over the past few years have been increasing their usage of facial recognition technology for a variety of purposes. One of the more controversial ones is their use of the tech in schools to monitor how well students are paying attention. They first tested it out back in 2019....
Two teams came across the handiwork of the Osmia avosetta bees. These discoveries took place in Turkey and Iran. Why are we still talking about this? It all comes down to their beautiful nests. The bees create them using flower petals. Every single nest takes around a day to build and is usually the best...
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a facility in the state of California is capable of manufacturing lab-grown meat. And what makes this story even more surreal is that the facility has been equipped to produce around 400,000 pounds every single year. But that would a contingency thing- as currently, the facility caps out at...
It is important that people operate with a sense of self-sufficiency, for most this means, keeping things on a smaller scale, gardening in their own backyards, or going to local farmer’s markets. However many people are looking at how the industrial revolution and advancements in technology can create change in communities. These people, like Nona...
Purple flags fly all along the Gulf Coast, from Fort Morgan, Alabama, to Panama City, Florida. Beach officials warn residents of a species of jellyfish called pink meanies. They were initially discovered in the Gulf Coast in 2000, and scientists identified them as a new species in 2011. Pink meanies tend to drift to beaches...
Johnson & Johnson has been in business since 1886. It was founded by 2 brothers with only 14 employees, on the basis that they prioritize the health and safety of their customers. While that ideal may have been true upon the company’s early establishment, the company is now facing countless lawsuits, with claims that their...
All of our lives, food has pretty much just been available to us. Open the fridge or the cupboard, and pull out what you want. Don’t have the ingredients you need? Go to the store and buy them. All of this is thanks to agriculture. Some argue, however, that the agricultural revolution was the worst...
In quite a bizarre discovery, a chatbot powered by Meta recently said Mark Zuckerberg was “too creepy and manipulative.” This chatbot is a major part of the efforts put up by the social media company toward AI. Meta plans on instituting technology that would be mimicking human behavior. This would be made possible by learning...
