The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild
People in the U.S. eat more salmon than any other fish, chowing down on an annual average of nearly 3.5 pounds per capita, ...
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Universal Audio Standard Series microphones review: These may be the only drum mics you’ll ever need
The UA SD-3, SD-5, and SD-7 use cutting-edge modeling tech to offer 15 microphones in three. By Julian Vittorio Posted on Nov ...
Using one of these Kodak Instant Print cameras to document the good, bad, and ugly of Thanksgiving
The camera's small enough to fit in my pocket. Normally, this camera would be $106, but right now it's $59.99.
Science says superstitions can have a very real impact on your life
The Superstitious Man is the kind who washes his hands in three springs, sprinkles himself with water from a temple font, ...
Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...
‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory
How does the brain store—and access—our memories? While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise ...
MIT maps how the brain experiences movies
Our brains have to do a lot of work when we watch a movie. There are plots to follow, dialogue to interpret, visuals to take in, and more. Now, scientists have created a detailed map of how the human ...
Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways
Feathers and other intact soft tissue samples found in some of the fossils even helped prove that modern birds almost ...
Bioprinting breakthrough uses acoustic waves to create lab-grown human tissue
[Related: Scientists have 3D bioprinted functioning human brain tissue.] ...
World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths
On Tuesday, the company’s 31st resupply mission for NASA delivered the world’s first satellite built using wooden parts. More ...
6 of the weirdest things to ever wash up on the beach
Earth’s surface is about 70 percent water. Our blue planet is more ocean than anything else. And here’s another fact: About ...
5 things to know about pygmy hippos–like Scotland’s own Haggis
Meet Haggis! The tiny pygmy hippo ( Choeropsis liberiensis) calf was born at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS ...