Trying to find a cure for AIDS, the Mayo Clinic made glow in the dark cats.
cats are much better models for AIDS viruses than are mice and other animals.
2011
In 2016, scientists detected a radio signal from a source 5 billion light-years away.
This means that when the signal started its journey, Earth didn’t even exist.
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John Stuart Mill.
advocated strongly for the preserving of individual rights and called for limitations to the power and authority of the state over the indiv
2016
Music Streaming Market - Global Market Share, Trends, Analysis and Forecasts, 2020 - 2030.
Rising number of service providers, proliferation of internet services, shifting preference towards online music streaming
2020
Your Favorite Foods May be Your Baby’s Favorite.
The flavors from the food a pregnant mother eats is transmitted into the amniotic fluid and swallowed by the baby
2001
Pound cake got its name from its recipe.
The early recipes of pound cake called for one pound of butter, one pound of eggs, and one pound of sugar
2020
pens won’t work in space.
Normal pens work by gravity pulling the ink towards the pen’s nib. As there’s no gravity in space, the ink doesn’t get pulled to the nib.
2020
A fitness app accidentally revealed the location of military bases around the world.
The app uses GPS to track users activitity, this information was used create a heat map
2018
Inequality affects the political support of redistribution - if inequality is skewed such that the middle class is closer to the poor than to the affluent, political support for redistributaion will be stronger. 2011
When Monopoly players Started with twice the money as their opponents.
they began to act rudely towards other players and argued that they used strategy and skill to achieve victory
2013
It is hypothesized that water movement reduced the local ethylene concentration on the root surface and consequently inhibited root hair development of sorghum seedlings grown in the mat system.
The taste map of the tongue that people learned in school is nonsense.
Taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are found all over the tongue.
2017
in 1918, Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized.
met with skepticism because she was a woman. During the 1920s, scientists around the world made the same findings
2020
In Japan, chefs have to train for over two years in order to qualify to serve Pufferfish.
Two years of training followed by a test which a third of applicants fail.
2012
A survey of 500 drivers found that 44 percent couldn't get a passing score on a written driving test.
However, there's no limit to the number of times you can take a driving test
2013
