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In Juuka, Finland, a group of engineering students from the Eindhoven University of Technology have been inspired by one of the models designed by the great Leonardo da Vinci in 1501 to build what is already considered the largest ice bridge in the world . Da Vinci’s original design consisted of building, with a single … Read more

Near the island of Zakinthos , a group of swimmers came across what appeared to be a submerged lost city in 2014. There were paved floors and columns. However, apart from these architectural remains, there was no sign of human presence in the city, such as coins, vessels and the like. A special section of … Read more

There are many people who, at the prospect of getting into a car (especially if they have to carry out a route full of curves), must take a biodramina to avoid dizziness and, eventually, vomiting. But why do we get dizzy when we go by car or in a vehicle that is in motion, such … Read more

Thanks to a new study that was recently presented at SLEEP 2016 , caffeine is a good ally to stay more awake, alert and mentally agile if you have slept only a few hours. However, this effect seems to disappear after two continuous days under this sleep deficit . To demonstrate this, the researchers recruited … Read more

Our sense of touch is not equally distributed throughout all parts of our body , some parts being much more sensitive than others. For example, the soles of the feet are not particularly sensitive, but the hands and lips occupy very large areas of the somatosensory cortex. To measure the sensitivity of our sense of … Read more

Volcanoes are fascinating geological phenomena, capable of vomiting the bowels of the Earth, producing diamonds and even, in their dormant state, giving fruit to a national park that seems to be from another planet, that of Yellowstone. To measure the fierceness of a volcano’s eruption, the Volcanic Explosive Index (IEV) is used, a scale that … Read more

Some penises, and also some areas of the penis, more specifically, appear darker than the rest of the skin, in some cases they even appear stained black. But this difference in the coloration of the dermis is completely natural and is due to the hormones of puberty . This is what Lindsey Bordone , a … Read more

The division of labor and specialization are symptoms of civilization. However, due to this specialization, many people face an intellectual challenge as if they were wearing blinders. It occurs in all areas, from economics to physics. The tree simply does not allow you to see the forest . It is affirmed that one thing is … Read more

What we eat every day, and even what we consider our favorite dishes, are a mixture of genetics and environment, but above all of environment : depending on the country or culture in which we have grown up, they will be one or the other. So what seems disgusting to us can be delicious to … Read more

Shortly after the microwave oven was commercialized, many were those who refused to use it, claiming that it caused cancer and other diseases. Later, the microwave oven is already a must-have appliance in practically any kitchen. However, there are still remissions that point out that, although the microwave is not bad for health in itself, … Read more

Current trends in the worsening of wildfires globally call for more effective response tools. And, for this, the Boeing 747-400 Global SuperTanker has been built, which you can see in action in the following video. This titan of the skies calls himself the Spirit of John Muir and is considered the largest firefighting aircraft in … Read more

While we sleep, many things happen, both in our brain and in our body . Sleepwalkers also do more striking things: one in five children sleepwalks regularly and at least 40% have done so at least once . As we get older that happens less frequently, but between 1% and 2.5% of adults still do. … Read more

Around the fact that a portion of food falls to the ground and its convenience to pick it up, blow it and continue eating it, a series of urban legends and even social and prophylactic rules have been generated, such as the five-second rule : if the food remains Less than those five seconds in … Read more

A strange research ( IgNobel ?) Published a few years ago in The Journal of Sexual Medicine , which has been carried out by researchers at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), dares to guess if a woman has regular orgasms simply contemplating how he walks . In particular, the system serves to infer whether … Read more

Due to the economic crisis and the somewhat immoral or usurious behavior of some banks, more and more people are fantasizing about the idea of going to their trusted bank and taking everything , while you execute a firm comb at the director: remember my mortgage? Without wanting to give ideas of anything, any day … Read more

The IgNobel prizes have just been awarded, the comic but not without scientific interest of the Nobel Prize. All the categories have presented equally strange or singular winners, but without a doubt the most tricky of all has been the winner of the Ig Nobel Reproduction category. In the study , Ahmed Shafik analyzed the … Read more

Biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan has discovered that paper wasps ( Polistes fuscatus ) are measured through the face. Or, exactly, through some black spots that stand out against the yellow of the face. The more irregular these spots are, the wasps interpret the … Read more