Parking a car in a crowded city is a nightmare, but navigating office towers with a bike in tow is no picnic either. The WalkCar promises to solve your commuting dilemma with a personal mobility device that’s so small you can carry it around in a laptop bag.
Continue reading A Tiny Personal Transporter That Looks Like a MacBook You Can Ride
Language takes an astonishing variety of forms across the world—to such a huge extent that a long-standing debate rages around the question of whether all languages have even a single property in common. Well, there’s a new candidate for the elusive title of “language universal” according to a paper in this week’s issue of PNAS. All languages, the authors say, self-organise in such a way that related concepts stay as close together as possible within a sentence, making it easier to piece together the overall meaning.
Continue reading MIT Scientists Discover A Universal ‘Link’ Between All Languages
The Blob has been there for over a year—a cauldron of extra-warm ocean temperatures off the coast of the Pacific Northwest that just won’t budge. The Blob has already affected food availability and habitats for marine life, and now scientists are starting to see at least one dangerous side-effect of the Blob: A harmful algae bloom stretching from Alaska to California.
Continue reading A Warm Ocean “Blob” In the Pacific Is Feeding a Toxic Algae Bloom
Have you ever wondered why your cat’s eyes have those creepy vertical slits for pupils? A new study
suggests the reason may lie in cats’ preferred mode of hunting.
For the typical elementary school swimmer, being able to dog paddle in the pool is an accomplishment. But 10-year-old Alzain Tareq isn’t your typical elementary school swimmer.
Continue reading 10-Year-Old Girl Becomes Youngest Swimmer At A World Championship
Students hitting the college bookstore this fall will get a stark lesson in economics before they’ve cracked open their first chapter. Textbook prices are soaring. Some experts say it’s because they’re sold like drugs.
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