Today: A soaked koala, a fishy crash, and a toe to finger transplant.
[Japanese Idioms by Flashcards] 良薬は口に苦し Teaches that one cannot expect to hear only good news in life. Sometimes, although painful, it is good medicine to taste the bitter truth. It is implicit in the statement that the speaker “cares enough” to speak with unusual candor. Sample text: (Style: spoken/casual/male) A: Itsumo kachoo kara komakaku chuui …
Researchers are just beginning to untangle the mystery of why more than half of Kazakhstan's critically endangered saigas died off in a few weeks in late May.
Somewhere between the greatest world-changing inventions there were some fun and sometimes even hilarious inventions the world has forgotten. BoredPanda proudly presents these Cool Inventions From the Past - enjoy, comment and don't forget to subscribe!
A portfolio of more than 1,500 images of Cornwall are to be sold at Penzance Auction House with an estimate of £25,000. This rare collection of photographs depict the ordinary lives of Cornish men and women from the 19th and early 20th century
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CLICK HERE to sign Council of Canadians pledge to not buy bottled water or Nestle products. You’ll feel better and so will I. [Note: this is not the first Nestlé boycott. As a sociologist fri…
WIM Hof’s new show hosted by Holly Willoughby and Lee Mack includes a beautiful icy backdrop in Europe. But where exactly in Europe was Freeze the Fear filmed? Here’s what we know. Wher…
(Phys.org)—For more than 100 years, scientists have debated the question: when light travels through a medium such as oil or water, does it pull or push on the medium? While most experiments have found that light exerts a pulling pressure, in a new paper physicists have, for the first time, found evidence that light exerts a pushing pressure.
Watergen, an Israeli company that produces water from air, is bypassing politics and tackling Gaza's water crisis through business.
Seven dwarfs from the Ovitz family (pictured) were selected by Nazi Josef Mengele for gruesome medical experiments. Mengele pulled out their teeth and eyelashes and poured boiling water in their ears.
Have you been to the Miskolctapolca Cave Bath? :)
The human body is composed of about 10 trillion cells. Everything from reproduction to infections to repairing a broken bone happens down at the cellular level. Find out all about cells.
This 14th century cottage is the most magical and charming vacation rental we've ever seen.
Some see it as a magical inverted fountain, some imagine it's a giant toilet — but it's actually a spillway designed to funnel away water after rare heavy rains, and it's flowing for the second time in two years.
Modern medical fertility treatments have increased the number of multiple births and turned such births into, if not a common occurrence, than certainly
From hunks of iron streaking through the sky, to the construction of skyscrapers and megastructures, this is the history of the world's greatest alloy.
They often signal a coming change in the weather.
A lack of rain has lowered water levels in the Grijalva River, allowing the beautifully eerie reemergence of a 16th century church.
ANAO's Brian Boyd says 43 per cent of funded projects were ineligible under the guidelines Prime Minister Scott Morrison's office was involved in suggesting which projects should be approved under a controversial sport grants scheme, a Senate inquiry has been told. Key points:The Senate hears the offices of the PM and then-sports minister shared "dozens" of versions of colour-coded spreadsheets Audit Office officials say the Prime Minister's office made direct and indirect representations to
"Jared and Ivanka's landlord—a billionaire from Chile who rents them their mansion in D.C.—will use the Boundary Waters as his toilet," ethics chief Richard Painter tweeted.
Together, Charles Koch, David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system.
Health secretary says mistakes in dispensing medicines cause ‘totally avoidable harm and death’
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
20 Gripping Photos of Extreme Weather
Do this simple salt water experiment to teach kids about the respective density of salt water and fresh water. It's a fantastic kitchen science experiment that works for an ocean unit or a density science lesson. The perfect STEM activity for kids to use a controlled variable and works great as a science fair project!
Haunting police images of Anita Cobby's killers taking detectives through that night of horror 30 years ago are published in a new book, from where she was abducted to the field where she was murdered.
Several experts said the order would have little practical impact.
I’m still on Plan B for one of my classes. Every day, I test the waters by doing PQA at the beginning of the period, and every day they continue to talk and talk and talk. The good news is that they are great at working independently and even with partners, so even though they…
I first encountered the concept of using unglazed clay vessels for sub-surface irrigation in Bill Mollison's "The Global Gardener" film series. Mollison comments that the technique might be, to parap
An Indigenous teen from northeastern Ontario is taking over her great aunt’s role as an advocate for water protection of the Great Lakes.
Everything about the modern world suggests that our beloved wireless should be dead in the water, and yet...
The siege and defense of Leningrad are one of the most tragic pages of the history of World War II in the USSR, which called it the Great Patriotic War.
Look, it's an inevitable fact of life that, at some point, you're going to be struck by lightning.
La sorprendente imagen de un "arco de niebla" fue capturada por un fotógrafo en Rannoch Moor, en el oeste de Escocia. Este tipo de arcoíris debe su nombre a que no se forma en la lluvia, sino en la niebla. ¿Sabes qué hay que hacer para verlo?
Make your own DIY wood stove water heater. Our design, the Blazing Showers Stovepipe Water Heater, produces hot water that stays warm for up to 48 hours.
Many, many more Americans would qualify for income-driven repayment plans, if only they knew about them.
New study confirms huge concentrations of potentially dangerous PFAS in rivers, lakes and taps in Dhaka
