80-Foot Steel Kraken Will Create an Artificial Coral Reef
This past April a massive 80-foot steel kraken was purposefully sunk into the Caribbean Sea on top of a decorated WW2 ship. The former Navy fuel barge and its monstrous [...]
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Sea Lions Kill Eachother Almost As Much As Humans Do
Researchers have mapped out the homicidal histories of more than 1000 mammals – and found that the New Zealand sea lion was among the most murderous. In a long list [...]
Bacteria Can Force Water Molecules to Become Ice & Snow for Ski Resorts
They kill crops, coax snowfall to fall out of the atmosphere, and help ski resorts stay open during unseasonably warm weather. These tiny life-forms are called ice-minus [...]
Plant Roots Work as Bio-Wires in Self-Growing Circuits
Computer scientist Andrew Adamatzky of the University of West England did a series of tests with four-day-old lettuce seedlings. To create bio-wires, he bridged two [...]
Scientists Discover The World’s First Warm Blooded Fish
The large, round fish—about the size of a manhole cover—uses its warm blood as an advantage in the ocean’s freezing depths. Deep-water fish called opah appear to be [...]
A severe drought in Mexico has uncovered a once-submerged 16th-century church.
It’s not every day that a 450-year-old building emerges from the depths of obscurity, but for the second time in just over a decade, a 16th-century church known as the [...]