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Today is National Science Fiction Day and the birthday of one of science fiction’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Science fiction is a literary genre that often involves space or time travel, alien life, or parallel universes. “A Wrinkle In Time”, “The Missing” series, and ” I, Robot” are some sci-fi novels you might enjoy!
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18 year-old Hillary Diane Andales of the Phillipines is the winner of the 2017 Breakthrough Junior Challenge. The competition with a 250,000 dollar prize challenges teenagers to create a 3 minute video that simplifies a big math or science idea. Hillary explained Einstein’s Theory of Relativity using frame of reference and a pickup truck!
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a new type of self-healing glass. The glass is a polymer that can fuse itself together when pressure is applied at room temperature. Imagine how great it will be when your phone screen cracks and you can just press it back together!
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There’s a new book coming out in April that should be a real gas! Zoologist Dani Rabaiotti and ecologist Nick Caruso created a guide to animal flatulence called “Does It Fart?” Birds and sloths don’t fart. Whales do it on an epic scale. Dinosaurs could have farted 4 pounds of methane per day!
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Who wants cheese in their tea, raise your hand! Cheese tea is a growing trend that started in China. A foam made of whipped cream, milk and cream cheese is added to black or green tea and topped with a pinch of salt. It’s like having tea and cheesecake in one cup!
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It’s New Year’s Day. Did you make a resolution? It’s a tradition for a person to try to change an undesired behavior, improve their life, or achieve a personal goal. Common resolutions are to exercise more and to eat healthier. My goal is to know the answer to everything you ask me!
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9000 years ago, cats started hanging out with humans. Humans began farming, rodents were attracted to crops, and wild cats came to catch the rodents. The farmers appreciated the free pest control and rewarded them with food scraps, semi-domesticating the cats. Genetic research shows cats are still mostly wild and tame themselves!
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What kind of bug is that? Is that poison ivy? Now you can snap a picture of it with your phone and it will tell you! An app called i Naturalist is free to download and was started by a group of scientists and biologists. It can identify thousands of species of wildlife.
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A new material is shaping skyscrapers these days. It’s called cross-laminated timber, or C L T, and is produced in the small town of Riddle Oregon. C L T is made by glueing panels of wood together in layers. Plyscrapers are earthquake and fire resistant, cheaper to build, and environmentally friendly!
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Often insect names represent the location where they were discovered, but Turkish scientist Erol Yıldırım has named a new insect Tiphia Bahattini after his father. There have been insects named after Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. Recently a wasp in New Zealand was named after the Harry Potter character Lucius Malfoy!
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