The clinical white beam of LEDs and frustrating time-delay of ‘green’ lighting has left many hankering after the instant, bright warm glow of traditional filament bulbs.

When an asteroid hit the Earth around 66 million years ago, it wiped out almost 75 percent of the plants and animals on the planet. All dinosaurs, except those that would eventually give rise to modern birds, were killed following the impact. Yet despite such a vast die-off, no bone bed containing a concentration of fossils as a result of this event has been found. But in a quarry behind a small township in New Jersey,  … Read More → "First fossil bed from the dinosaur extinction event itself"

Feeling extra-confident in your crafting skills after knitting yourself a pair of Netflix-pausing socks? Take your newfound skills to the next level by now making yourself a comfy cozy scarf that not only looks like a giant thermometer around your neck, it works like one too.

Instructables user caitlinsdad has posted all the details and instructions you’ll need to … Read More → "Make yourself a working thermometer scarf that actually shows the temperature"

Is that chicken clucking at you seductively? It’s no surprise. You’re hot stuff. To chickens, that matters a lot.

A study published in the journal Human Nature found that chickens preferred to look at humans who were rated as beautiful by college students:

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a … Read More → "Study: Chickens prefer beautiful people"

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When [Cassidy and Chad Lexcen]’s twin daughters were born in August, smaller twin [Teegan] was clearly in trouble. Diagnostics at the Minnesota hospital confirmed that she had been born with only one lung and half a heart. [Teegan]’s parents went home and prepared for the inevitable, but after two months, she was still alive. [Cassidy and Chad] started looking for second opinions, and after a few false starts, [Teegan]’s scans ended up at Miami& … Read More → "Baby saved by doctors using Google Cardboard after 3D printer fails"

Etsy shop funky3Dfaces is offering custom 3D printed LEGO minifig heads of your very own noggin for $30. You just send them pictures from all around your head, then they turn it into a 3D model and print it. Granted they don’t really look like minifig heads, but they do kinda sorta look like a really blurry ghost version of your own face.
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Apple has just unveiled all the features it’s adding to iOS 9.3, and though the headliner might be the beginnings of multiple user support (at least for students), there’s another feature that’s going to please everybody else. It’s called “Night Shift,” and it subtly shifts the color temperature of the display based on the time and location of your iPhone or iPad. The point is to have the screen blast less blue … Read More → "IOS 9.3 will let you dim display’s blue light to help your brain shift towards sleep"

Mogador is an island off the coast of Morocco. In 2014, Abdeljebbar Qninba, a biologist at Mohammed V University in Rabat observed falcons capturing smaller birds, plucking off their tail and wing feathers, then storing them in holes in rocks for later consumption.

Although scientists have seen birds storing dead animals for later meals, this is the first time that anyone has seen birds stocking live animals.
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