The article is best summed by the closing quote: "Uranus is truly a mystery. Will humans finally take up the task to explore it?"
Come on folks, this is comedy gold right here.
The marine planarian, cuttlefish and Nile perch have one thing in common: in order to propel themselves, they use their fins to generate a continuous wave, which advances along their entire length. With this so-called undulating fin movement, the BionicFinWave also maneuvres through a pipe system (and at) the same time the autonomous underwater robot is able to communicate with the outside world wirelessly and transmit data
And really neat to watch too!
Aural Archipelago
Posted by Darwish in it's the arts 35 days ago
Aural Archipelago is the lovechild of Palmer Keen, an American DIY ethnomusicologist wandering the vast archipelago of Indonesia to find, document, expose and promote little-known traditional musics around the country. Within a few years, Palmer has travelled from vast islands like Sumatra, Java, and Borneo to small dots in the ocean like Rote and Selayar in search of the diverse and beautiful music that fascinates him. With this project, his hope is to allow unprecedented audiences (local and foreign) free access to music that is often difficult or impossible to hear otherwise.
Cockroach bread might feed world’s population in the future


According to a new paper published to be published tomorrow in Science (link is external), there is a quantifiable answer: roughly 25% of people need to take a stand before large-scale social change occurs. This idea of a social tipping point applies to standards in the workplace, and any type of movement or initiative.

They are ugly, and they are poisonous. And now scientists have discovered that they carry switchblades.

Stonefish, a group that includes many species, have a previously unknown defensive weapon: a “lachrymal saber” in each cheek that can be drawn and retracted as needed.
A researcher realizes that cancer cells share material via nanotubes. This might help cancer cells spread immunity to chemotherapy.
Muslims Condemn
Posted by Darwish in current events 67 days ago
A report of one instance of a stolen identity being used to sell digital books of spam-style text for $555 a copy. The fake author gets 60% of the selling price. Even at that rate, the criminal managed to "earn" nearly $24,000 .
In particular, as our name suggests, the focus is on works which have now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Our aim is to promote and celebrate the public domain in all its abundance and variety, and help our readers explore its rich terrain – like a small exhibition gallery at the entrance to an immense network of archives and storage rooms that lie beyond.
We now know that all extant living creatures derive from a single common ancestor, called LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor. It's hard to think of a more unifying view of life. All living creatures are linked to a single-celled creature, the root to the complex-branching tree of life. (...) They are able to trace LUCA to a simple prokaryotic creature (a single-celled bacterium with unprotected genetic material) that lived some 3 billion years ago. It must have been a very tough organism, able to survive in very extreme environments.
Watch the question mark suit guy from those old TV commercials do a twitchy little dance to some bleeps and bloops.
Through a combination of sobering real life stories and a treasure trove of data, researchers Heather Hunt and Prof. Gene Nichol explain how North Carolina is, quite literally, criminalizing poverty through the imposition of burdensome fines and fees that millions of people cannot afford.