Life's Little Mysteries Entertainment Archives
Creepy Video: Human Eyes Recorded in Slow Motion
October 31, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
A human eye is constantly moving rapidly because only a small portion of the retina is used for direct vision.
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Fun Video: Engineers Blow Stuff Up With Science
October 28, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
A chemical reaction is the combination of two reactants to form an entirely new product.
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Stunning Image: 'UFO-Shape' Clouds Over Mt. Rainier
October 27, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The cloud is formed when warm, moist air runs into the surface of a mountain or mountain range.
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LEGO Robot Beats Rubik's Cube Record In Less Than Six Seconds
October 26, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
CubeStormer II is controlled by four Lego NXT ‘bricks’ that communicate via Bluetooth with a Samsung Galaxy SII smart phone.
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Scarlett Johansson Email Hacker Claims Celebrity Addiction. Is That a Real Thing?
October 25, 2011, Katharine Gammon, Life's Little Mysteries contributor
An addiction to celebrities sounds made up, but for some people it could be a very real disease.
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Astonishing Video: Baseball's Gritty Story
October 24, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
All balls used in professional play are required to be rubbed with mud from a riverbed in South Jersey.
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Vampire Moths Discovered In Siberia
October 24, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The males may suck the blood of humans and other mammals in order to be able to deliver a sexual gift to females.
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Fun Video: Fish that Communicate with Flatuence
October 21, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
When the fish pass gas, the bubbles that emanate make a high-frequency sound only audible to herring.
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Cool Party Trick: Frozen Puck Hovers in Mid-Air
October 20, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The superconductivity of the disc's surface plays havoc on magnetic fields but is thin enough to let in magnetic energy in the form of "flux tubes" in order to keep the object suspended in mid-air.
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Fun Video: Pink Light Doesn't Exist
October 18, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Colors are distinguished by their wavelengths, and the brain processes this information and produces a visual display that we experience as color.
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Why CGI Humans Are Creepy, and What Scientists Are Doing about It
October 18, 2011, Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer
The uncanny valley effect happens when people feel creeped out by lifelike androids and computer-rendered human characters. Scientists are investigating how to get around it.
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Astonishing Video: Shark Vs. Octopus
October 17, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Spiny dogfish sharks placed in the same tank as the giant octopus in this video were being killed by the strong tentacles of the ocean predator.
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There's No Place Like the Auction Block: Dorothy's Ruby Slippers for Sale
October 17, 2011, Life's Little Mysteries Staff
Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers are expected to fetch millions at auction.
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Stunning Image: Moss-Mimicking Mantis
October 17, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
This odd-looking creature comes adorned with so many stealth adaptations that you will have to look three or four times before you have a change of recognizing it’s outline.
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Time-Lapse Video: A History of the Sky
October 14, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
To make the video, an image of the sky was captured every 10 seconds from a camera installed on the roof of the San Francisco Exploratorium, on the edge of San Francisco Bay.
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Amazing Invention: Solar Lights Made of Plastic Water Bottles
October 13, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
This simple design idea has been adopted by engineering students and expanded to other developing areas where many low-income homes lack access to either daylight or electricity.
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Mysterious Photo: Sasquatch Spotted on the Sun
October 11, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Prominences can take all sorts of shapes that seem familiar to us as they launch upward and fall back down to the Sun’s surface.
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Fun Video: Typewriter Cocktail Machine
October 11, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The invention literally allows anyone to taste the flavor of words.
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Amazing Video: Killer Whale Imitates Motor Boat Noise
October 09, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
he amazing video above captures Luna swimming right next to a boat and mimicking boat noises.
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Adorable Video: Two Bear Cubs Enjoying A Hammock
October 07, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
These bears climb regularly to feed, escape enemies or to hibernate.
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Captivating Video: Richard Feynman On Beauty
October 06, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
This video, called "Beauty" compiles stunning footage of nature in the words of Feynman, himself.
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Fun Video: Schrodinger’s Cat Explained
October 04, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
As the video explains, the cat is both dead and alive, in what is called a superposition of states.
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1950s Footage Of Housewife's Acid Trip
October 04, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
This American housewife describes her experience after being administered a 100 gama dose of LSD-25 during clinical trials of the drug in 1956.
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33-Foot-Long Whale Carcass Found In English Field
October 03, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
A whale carcass was recently discovered one mile inland in England.
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Cool Party Trick: What Happens When You Drop A Slinky
September 30, 2011, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
What happens when a slinky that has been extended and tied to the weight of a tennis ball is released?
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