"It is definitely not good for people to go into the foam, but they just do not understand the risks."
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A Scientific Illustration
Science and technology are evolving at a blisteringly fast rate, and we’re here to keep you up to date.
By All That's Interesting
- "The fact that we can't [determine whether it's wolf or dog] might suggest that it's from a population that was ancestral to both — to dogs and wolves." http://bit.ly/37VcWj3
- Men who found Viking treasure sentenced to jail, ancient snake with legs unearthed, suspected Amazon warrior's remains discovered. http://bit.ly/2OAesPP
- "In my 35 years I will tell you it's one of the worst things I've ever seen," said the local sheriff. http://bit.ly/2KW75ju
- Fetus in fetu is an extremely rare condition that occurs when one fetus is absorbed by its own sibling in the womb. http://bit.ly/37G0kvR
- "People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, compared to stone or wooden images." http://bit.ly/2DeDTQD
- The contraceptive called RISUG — reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance — is currently pending approval in India. The product is injected near the testicles and lasts up to 13 years. http:// …
- Rocky Dennis' extremely rare condition was expected to kill him before he turned seven. Instead, he survived well into his teenage years and lived a remarkably full life. http://bit.ly/35rUlZU
- It's the first full 3D skull of a land-based snake species that sported hind legs during prehistoric times. http://bit.ly/2KHUbpe
- Caused by a lightning strike in a forest in New South Wales, over 50 bushfires have spread throughout the region, threatening the last 43,000 koalas in Australia. http://bit.ly/346snCl
- Critics of the bill argue that it could let students off the hook for putting down scientifically inaccurate answers. http://bit.ly/2pxdE4r
- "It wasn't exactly how I imagined the trip of a lifetime to go. The whole experience was surreal and strange." http://bit.ly/2qs9mff
- Captain James Cook sailed for the benefit of science and to expand the British Empire. He is arguably history's most accomplished navigator but he left behind a complicated legacy. http://bit.ly/2p …
- Prehistoric beetle found preserved in amber, century-old booze recovered from shipwreck, mammoth skeletons discovered in human-made traps. http://bit.ly/2NPBlhK
- After last year's drug-related murder of a 21-year-old Albanian, Italian police began probing a gang of suspected drug dealers — who decided to hide cocaine in Italy's boar-infested countryside. ht …
- When doctors told Dr. Scott-Morgan that he would be dead by the end of 2019, he was determined to prove them wrong. http://bit.ly/2rKVNb8
- An exceptionally high tide left 45 percent of Venice engulfed in water. The city's mayor later tweeted, "Venice is on its knees." http://bit.ly/2KkFsQP
- "This specimen perfectly illustrates the cooperative evolution of plants and animals during this time period." http://bit.ly/2NGLb5D
- The screwdriver was buried deep enough that it had already pierced the man's large intestine. http://bit.ly/2CuQApK
- "They were having sex in her eye and one of them is pregnant and has babies," said one researcher handling the case. http://bit.ly/2NORVNE
- It was previously assumed that early hunters only killed woolly mammoths if they were already injured. The discovery of these resourceful traps firmly challenges that idea. http://bit.ly/2WUtmmz
- The study shows how resourceful ants can be — even in unusual situations. This colony's survival suggests an efficiency that's both remarkable and deeply unsettling. http://bit.ly/2NlUdEM
- Instead of finding the remains of one whole cat, researchers found a ball of fabric, five hind leg bones, and nothing else. http://bit.ly/2CfM1Qn
- Experts believe this is the first evidence ever found of a Viking woman with a battle injury. http://bit.ly/2PQiIfd
- "Since I was the eldest among the other seven children, I felt the urge to save her. So, I jumped into the water and swam to where she was struggling to float." http://bit.ly/2JLSTJe
- "I love it when we can apply mathematical models to even the most surprising things." http://bit.ly/36iQiAl
- Hiking Mount Fuji outside of the summer months has been discouraged by authorities, but currently there is no law banning climbers from attempting to scale the famous landmark. http://bit.ly/2PzC4o …
- "He was so much more than this, so very much more, and we will remember him for all that he was — someone, not something." http://bit.ly/2Nrdeok
- "We've known for a long time that modern humans originated in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago... but what we hadn't known until the study was where exactly this homeland was." http://bit.ly/34bR …
