By: Jessica Suss/Simple Most Don’t put that baby down. New research says you can’t hold your baby too much. In fact, the more you snuggle with your babe, the better off they’ll be. The importance of touch in a baby’s development cannot be overstated, and the latest research suggests that holding your baby is more crucial to…
Children Who Play Outside More Likely To Protect Nature As Adults
By: Science Daily Protecting the environment can be as easy as telling your kids to go outdoors and play, according to a new UBC study. Research by Catherine Broom, assist. prof. in the Faculty of Education at UBC Okanagan, shows that 87 percent of study respondents who played outside as children expressed a continued love of…
The Solar Industry Is Creating Jobs 17 Times Faster Than The Rest of The US Economy
By: Karla Lant/Futurism It’s not only about the environment. A new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) reveals that solar jobs in the US (and other nations) are expanding quickly. As of November 2016, the American solar industry employed 260,077 workers. This is an increase of 24.5 percent from 2015, with a growth rate that…
Gravitational Waves Observed For A Third Time
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science A LIGO and Virgo collaboration have announced a new detection of gravitational waves, which was observed on January 4, 2017, by the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors in Washington and Louisiana. As reported in Physical Review Letters, the event was a black hole merger that created a single black hole with a mass 49…
This Is The First Ever Nanoscale Image Of A Living Cell Membrane
By: Mike Mcrae/Science Alert Researchers have completed the world’s first scan of a living cell membrane down to a nanoscale level, revealing details that could finally resolve a longstanding debate on how they function. The technique used to create this incredible image could fundamentally change how nanoscale structures are studied in living things. The research was…
New Evidence Reveals Black Hole Event Horizons Are All Too Real
By: Peter Dockrill/Science Alert Scientists have found new evidence to support the idea that matter vanishes completely when it falls into a supermassive black hole, suggesting Einstein was right about these unquenchable voids lurking throughout the Universe. The findings show that black hole event horizons – the invisible barriers beyond which nothing can escape the intense pull…
For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed A Giant Magnetic ‘Bridge’ Between Galaxies
By: Fiona Macdonald/Science Alert For the first time, scientists have detected evidence of a magnetic field that’s associated with the vast intergalactic ‘bridge’ that links our two nearest galactic neighbors. Known as the Magellanic Bridge, the bridge is a huge stream of neutral gas that stretches some 75,000 light-years between our two neighboring galaxies, the Large…
One Penny Still In Circulation Is Worth $85,000. Do You Know How To Spot It?
By: Rebecca Endicott/Little Things Pennies aren’t the most useful coin out there; a single cent doesn’t buy you much these days! But an old-fashioned copper penny might be worth a whole lot more than you realize. The same way that certain 1970 quarters are worth a lot of money, specific one-cent coins can be worth a…
Welsh Farmer Accidentally Creates World’s Hottest Chili
By: Katy Evans/IFL Science Hot chili peppers have the best names. They sound dangerous and vaguely threatening. A warning for those stupid enough to actually try and eat one, if you will. “It’s not like we didn’t warn you,” they seem to say. The previous record-holder for hottest chili in the world, the ominous-sounding Carolina Reaper,…