Critters
NASA used a laser to beam a video of this animal back to Earth
What is a cat?
"One thing that's really exciting about this is that it's AI being used for good”
What is facial recognition for geese?
Penguins do this 10,000 times a day
What is a nap?
This martial art could slow age-related memory decline
What is tai chi?
Scientists are trying to use these to deflect lightning
What are lasers?
This animal seems to use vocal fry while hunting
What is a whale?
“It has all these little tiny dots. It looks like it has a case of the measles, or something”
What is a snowflake?
A handful of this contains something like 10 billion organisms
What is dirt?
Doing this every half hour can offset a lot of the harms of sitting all day
What is a five minute walk?
Researchers describe this as putting the sun inside some sort of gas tank
What is fusion?
This creature tweaks its RNA to adjust to different temperatures
What is an octopus?
“We did find that he was modestly protected against irritable bowel syndrome”
Who was Beethoven?
For science, doctors swallowed six of these
What are lego heads?
Eating more than a serving a day of this can significantly increase your risk of diabetes
What is red meat?
This wild plant was a surprise find in the rugged outback of Australia
What is a tomato?
White spots on this animal's wing may help it fly
What is a monarch butterfly?
"This creeps out our attorneys. It makes them feel uncomfortable in this space."
What is genetic engineering of humans?
A complete map of this creature’s brain showed 3016 neurons connected by 548,000 synapses
What is a fruit fly larvae?
A tick bite can sometimes create an allergy to this
What is red meat?
For the first time, scientists caught a sun-like star in the act of doing this
What is eating a planet?
This animal fashions a drumstick and drums on trees to woo mates
"Some of the threats and the harassment have been beyond the pale, quite frankly, towards some of our panelists”
What is a NASA panel on UFOs?
It was detected this year, and its length is 20 million million miles
Archaeologists studying a Bronze age skeleton were surprised to find evidence of this surgical procedure
What is square hole in skull?
Scientists created robots, or necrobots, by reanimating corpses of this animal
What are spiders?