Jun/100
Is There Sound in Space?
Nope. Sound needs a medium to travel through, such as air, but the space is a vacuum. That is why you really can’t hear anything in space.
Imagine watching intergalactic battle and explosions just like in Star Wars movies, but without the sounds… 
Apr/100
Elephants are 4×4
Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in London discovered the fact that the legs of elephants work like a four wheel drive vehicle. Each limb used for both braking and accelerating. Elephants use their forelimbs and hind limbs in similar braking and propulsive roles, not dividing these functions among limbs.
Other animals with four legs are thought to have rear leg drive, because the hind legs are used for acceleration, and the front legs are used more for braking purpose.
Maybe people should start replacing their gas-guzzler 4×4’s with elephants? They’re environmentally friendly… 
*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100330/wl_uk_afp/britainscienceanimalsoffbeat
Mar/100
Turritopsis Nutricula, the Immortal Jellyfish
Turritopsis nutricula is a species of jellyfish that have truly discovered the secret of immortality. This species is capable of cycling from an adult stage to an immature polyp stage over and over again, so that there might be no natural limit to its life span.
The key is in transdifferentiation process, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. This species is able to regenerate its entire body repeatedly.
what an amazing animal! 
*http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html
Mar/100
Cool Words – Palindromes
Palindromes are cool words. A palindrome is a word that can be read the same way in either direction. Not just words actually, they can also be phrase, or numbers.
There are many of them, and I just list the well-known words. There is no point of listing palindromes that we never even heard of 
* anna
* civic
* dad
* deed
* did
* eve
* hannah
* huh
* kayak
* level
* madam
* mom
* noon
* nun
* peep
* pop
* pop
* poop
* racecar
* radar
* refer
* wow
Please add if you know some other words that aren’t listed here yet. 
Dec/090
Women hands have a greater variety of bacteria than men
A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men.
Researchers are not sure why woman have a greater variety of bacteria than men, but it may have to so with the acidity of the skin. Men are generally has more acidic skin than women. Other possibilities are differences in sweat and oil gland production, frequency of moisturizer and cosmetics applications, skin thickness, and hormone production.
*on the net
Dec/090
How bleach kills germs
Scientists have just figured out how bleach kills germs. The active ingredient in bleach called Hypochlorous acid attacks proteins in bacteria and causing them to clump up like an egg that has been boiled.
The discovery was reported in the journal Cell by a team at the University of Michigan.
*on the net
Dec/091
Watching Television and Happiness
Researchers from University of Maryland, who surveyed more than 30,000 Americans from 1975 to 2006, found that people who watched about 19 hours of TV a week were happiest, and people who watched 25 hours per week were most unhappy.
They say that the results were true, regardless the subject was married or not, wealthy or poor.
*on the net
Dec/090
How Birds Can Cause Jet Plane Crash
According to Bird Strike Committee USA, more than 200 people have been killed as a result of bird strikes since 1988.
The incidents are serious when the birds are sucked into a jet engine and strike an engine fan blade. The impact displaces the blade and causes the blade to strike another blade and a cascade can occur, resulting in engine failure.
*on the net
Dec/092
Dark Chocolate Fights Cancer
Researchers have discovered a compound in dark chocolate that fights fast-growing cancers. The compound requires the activity of Kinase enzyme, which causes cancerous cells to die but leaves normal cells alone. The darkest variety of chocolate offers the greatest benefit.
*on the net
Dec/090
X-rays from Scotch tape
Physicists are announcing a startling discovery: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays.
“We were very surprised,” said Juan Escobar. “The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous.”
Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, reports the work with UCLA colleagues in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.
He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or scarce.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/ap_on_sc/sci_scotch_tape_surprise
