Science

There is new underwear on the market made in Britain but it’s the American consumer that is the biggest buyer. Shreddies, the underwear that filters the stench of passing gas, the SBD, the one no one hears but they sure do smell. Shreddies use science to absorb the smell with a cloth that has a micro porous structure to form a layer of activated carbon cloth.

A study from the University of Utah Pain Management Center found that music can ease pain. Almost half of people living with constant pain found some relief while listening to music and with the 16 to 24 year old crowd, it was closer to 70 percent.

I was strolling the internet the other day and found a cool article. It was about things that have been invented that, basically, no one know about. Until now! Take a look at this! And are they useful!!

I am all about watching the sky. Stars are so wonderful to stare at! And tonight a partial Lunar Eclipse will happen! Will we see it?

More than 1,000 people were injured in Central Russia when a meteorite slammed into Lake Chebarkul in February. A 10,000 ton rock burned up over Central Russia breaking windows and shaking building and now scientists have recovered what was left of the rock from the bottom of the lake.

The flying car always seemed like a thing of the future. By 2015, the future could be here.  A company called Terragugia is hoping to sell the first flying car, a hybrid car-plane named Transition. The Transition isn’t like a flying car we dreamed of as it is clumsy and hard to handle.

Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic space travel and producer Mark Burnett have teamed up for a space travel reality show. NBC has picked up the idea of ‘Space Race’, a reality show competition with the prize being a trip to space aboard Space Ship Two.

Scientists have discovered that plants can communicate with each other to warn against potential danger. The plants that have this function seem to be ground plants like strawberries, clover and reed, plants that have horizontal stems. They grow on, or in, the ground, and they can share information.

Just recently, my band Sharon Buck Dixon Road was playing at Crystal Falls in Chelsea. A pair of our fans came up to us before the show started and said they had to leave and they had a good excuse. The woman had been contacted by the hospital saying they had a kidney for her. What an incredible thing to happen!

It was getting so bad in the kitchen sink it felt like the scene from The Green Mile: when Michael Clark Duncan releases the badness into the air. Remember that? Well, I was living it this past week. Luckily, the internet and YouTube have endless information on how to do just about anything!

I love learning about the human body. Science was never my thing in school but I've come to learn that it's a lot more interesting than I thought it was! Especially when it has to do with your brain! And this just blows my mind (sorry for the pun).

The tv show 'Diggers' is a staple in our household. When Ringy and King George find something in the ground, whether it is roundness in the hole, some civ or even some rev (if you don't know the lingo, you will) we all get excited!

According to a study from Boston College, hanging out with your Grandparents is good for your health. Grandma and Grand pap can lower you risk of depression. The best part of Grandparents is they want to spoil and nurture their grandchildren and that you feel good about yourself.

Billionaire Elon Musk, the guy that gave us Pay Pal, SpaceX and Tesla electric cars, has introduced his vision of a transportation system called ’Hyperloop’. A means of transportation that is solar-powered and can get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes ...

The Curiosity Rover is beginning its second year on Mars, having touched down on the surface of the red planet on Aug. 6, 2012. The mission has been a total success as the rover found evidence that Mars once had conditions that would support life ...

Two weeks ago, the Earth came close a catastrophe from a nuclear flare from the sun. Massive surges of energy or electromagnetic pulses, known as EMP’s, could have knocked out electrical equipment all over the planet.