Life's Little Mysteries Entertainment Archives
Image: Scientists May Recreate Beer From mid-1800s Shipwreck
May 22, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Scientists at the VTT Research Centre of Finland isolated four different species of live lactic acid bacteria from beer found in an old shipwreck.
View Full Article »
Video: Blob-Like Creature is Rarely Seen Jellyfish
May 21, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The jellyfish was reportedly filmed during deep-sea drilling near the United Kingdom.
View Full Article »
Video: Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Gets Coffee
May 19, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Researchers hope to build an arm that could help people with more complex tasks, such as brushing your teeth.
View Full Article »
Video: Hungry Tiger Salamander Eats Cockroaches
May 19, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Named because of their black stripes, the salamanders live in U.S., southern Canada and eastern Mexico.
View Full Article »
Science Fact or Fiction: We Can Jump Between Parallel Universes
May 18, 2012, Adam Hadhazy, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
One minute everything is normal, the next everything is just a little off. Parallel universes!
View Full Article »
Video: Bizzare Brain Accident in 1800s Studied
May 18, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Phineas Gage had a three-foot rod go through his brain and survived.
View Full Article »
Video: Cormorants Build 100,000 Nests in Bahrain Desert
May 17, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
These seabirds build nests to breed in the bare sand in order to keep their vulnerable young away from predators.
View Full Article »
Video: Timelapse of Earth in Stunning Satellite Images
May 16, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Elektro-L No. 1 flies more than 22,000 miles (35,700 kilometers) above the Earth.
View Full Article »
Science Fiction or Fact: Invisibility Cloaks Will One Day Exist
May 15, 2012, Adam Hadhazy, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Harry Potter and Star Trek invisibility cloaks might be tough to pull off.
View Full Article »
Dr. Evil's Dream Come True: Sharks with Frickin' Lasers [Video]
May 15, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
As Dr. Evil said in the Austin Powers movie, it's sharks with lasers.
View Full Article »
Image: Brightly-Colored Headshield Sea Slug
May 14, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The headshield slug has a characteristic broadening at the head.
View Full Article »
Video: Camera Trap Video Offers Glimpse of World's Rarest Gorilla
May 13, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
In the video, a group of eight travels noisily through the forest floor.
View Full Article »
Video: Brainless Brittle Stars Move Bilaterally, Like Humans
May 12, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
When the brittle star wants to change direction, it simply chooses another main arm and uses that as the front of its body.
View Full Article »
Vogue Magazine Bans Anorexic Models, But Will It Help?
May 11, 2012, Benjamin Radford, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Thin models have been increasingly blamed for promoting unhealthy body images.
View Full Article »
Video: Breathalyzer Sniffs for Signs of Disease
May 11, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Biomarkers are chemicals whose presence in the human body has been associated with the development of certain disorders.
View Full Article »
Video: Dwarf Mammoths Roamed Crete Millions of Years Ago
May 10, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Paleontologists from London's Natural History Museum found fossilized teeth of the three-foot mammoth.
View Full Article »
Video: New Spider Species Discovered in Alabama
May 09, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Trapdoor spiders live in subterranean burrows with a hinged door built from silk and soil.
View Full Article »
Video: Elephant Belts Out Tunes on the Harmonica
May 08, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Shanthi lives at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and was given the instrument after her handlers noticed she was using her trunk to make sounds.
View Full Article »
Video: Sea Urchin Army Attacks Giant Kelp
May 07, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The purple sea urchins used their sharp teeth to cut down the giant kelp.
View Full Article »
Video: Students Develop Brain Pong Game
May 06, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Two Cornell University students took $75 and developed a way to play Pong with their brainwaves.
View Full Article »
Video: 5,000-year-old Blood Clue to Iceman's Death
May 06, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Using a nano-size probe, scientists examined several wounds found on the Iceman.
View Full Article »
5 Awesome Ways 'The Avengers' Bend Physics
May 04, 2012, Katharine Gammon, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Marvel's Avengers bend the rules of physics to fight super villains, but some of the comic book science is surprisingly close to reality.
View Full Article »
Video: Pigeons Found to Have "GPS" cells in Brain
May 04, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
Scientists say that birds as well as other animals can sense the Earth's magnetic force and change migration routes accordingly.
View Full Article »
Video: Inflatable Bike Helmet
May 03, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
The helmet is designed so that it will only inflate when the wearer is on a bicycle.
View Full Article »
Video: Male Seahorse Gives Birth
May 02, 2012, Nina Sen, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
A female seahorse will deposit the eggs into the brood pouch of the male.
View Full Article »
