A North Carolina middle school math teacher has come up with a way in which, she says, will improve her students concentration. She, like everyone, realizes that math is not everyone’s favorite subject and, for her eighth graders, there always seemed to be a lot of restlessness going on during class. So, she decided to …
White orcas, or killer whales, were once so rare that scientists only counted one of them on the entire planet. Now, it seems, there are a few that have attracted the attention of researchers located in the northern and western part of the Pacific Ocean. One was spotted recently, once again, and seems to be the …
Scientists have developed a water filtration system that is designed to filter out contaminants, especially salt, from ocean water. The groundbreaking work being done at the University of Illinois may be a major step toward a sea water water filtration system that isn’t all that expensive. Many have been wondering for decades why the United …
A Chinese company called KuangChi Science, has announced itself as a sort of competitor in the private space race. While Space X and Virgin Galactic seem to have little to fear from this Chinese upstart, the company does intend to launch what it calls its “space balloon” which will take brave travelers into outer space. …
On September 7, the 2016 Paralympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro and a cyclist, Denise Schindler of Germany, will compete with a prosthetic leg that was created with a 3D printer. It is the first time anyone has competed in the Paralympic Games with a prosthetic that was generated in this way. …
Apparently, it is no longer a secret that sleeping naked is more healthy for you than sleeping with any sort of clothing on. Body temperature, recent research declares, can greatly affect your sleeping mind to the point where just a slight rise in temperature will cause more disturbed sleep. With regard to men, a lower …
Recent research coming out of the University of Auckland, in Australia, has discovered that zinc is able to help the brain cells to communicate more effectively. It has built upon 2013 Japanese research that found zinc to be extremely deficient, even absent, in autistic children. The scientists believe that the zinc could stimulate and change …
Research scientists at the University of Michigan have created a new type of laser that has been made from human blood. The new laser technology was invented using both human blood as well as a fluorescent dye. The researchers believe that this new technology will allow scientists to better locate and target tumors within the …
A recent study out of the University of Illinois has found that the psychological pain and damage from childhood bullying is longer lasting that may have been previously anticipated. The researchers found that the long term affects of bullying can be as strong as damage done by sexual assault or rape. The research team studied …
A young student of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin won first prize at General Electric’s Unimpossible Innovation Challenge by proving that a bell can, in fact, be unrung. The point of the contest, says GE officials, is to disprove a particular long held belief or idiom using any field of science the contestants …