Water beetles can live on after being eaten and excreted by a frog

Water beetles can live on after being eaten and excreted by a frog

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Click HERE for a link to the original article A water beetle species, Regimbartia attenuata, can survive being eaten by a frog by traversing the frog’s digestive tract and emerging alive from the other end. This remarkable...
Why the Greeks could hear plays from the back row

Why the Greeks could hear plays from the back row

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Click HERE for a link to the original article. The ancient Greek theatre of Epidaurus is renowned for its exceptional acoustics, allowing performers to be heard clearly from almost 60 meters away. New research by Nico Declercq...
Solving a Climate Puzzle, One Tree Ring at a Time

Solving a Climate Puzzle, One Tree Ring at a Time

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Click HERE for a link to the full article. Trevor Porter, a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is using tree rings to study how Canada’s Arctic climate has changed over the past 1,000 years. By analyzing tree...
Space Jellyfish (Space X, Florida, May 2022)

Space Jellyfish (Space X, Florida, May 2022)

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Click HERE for a link to the original article A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center created a visual phenomenon known as a “space jellyfish” on Friday morning. This effect occurs when a rocket’s plume of...
Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Please click HERE for link to the website. Griffith Observatory, which opened in 1935, is the world’s most-visited public observatory. It was inspired by Griffith J. Griffith, who also founded Griffith Park. The Observatory...
Israeli scientists say they synthesized human embryos from stem cells

Israeli scientists say they synthesized human embryos from stem cells

Submitted by Michael Frankfort @mfrank_76 Click HERE for link to the original article. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have successfully created human embryo models from stem cells outside the uterus. These stem cell-derived embryos (SEMs) mimic...
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