Science

You go to Goodwill to find a good deal and sometime an unusual item you never thought you would find. In a North Austin, Texas, Goodwill store a most unusual item was found, a human skull.

Paul Mukisa was born on May 27 with a condition known as ‘parasitic twinning’, its where one twin is not fully developed. Paul had two legs and arms from his brother that never fully grew. Paul was the host body so he had four arms and legs.

In a remote section of Siberia, a giant crater was found and no one knows how it got there. An oil and gas industry helicopter was flying over the area when they spotter the crater and hovered over the giant hole stating in was big enough for the helicopter to fly in.

As scientists continue to study animals and learn more all the time, they are finding that animals are smarter than we think. Of course they’re not as smart as humans but that doesn’t mean, in their own way, they’re not smart.

Slopeside Syrup Company in Vermont is tapping into the energy drink market. It’s geared toward athletes like runners, skiers and anyone else involved in outdoor sports. It not your typical energy drink, it’s pure organic Vermont maple syrup in a bottle.

August 22 is Tongue Twister Day which is the combination of sounds that make people lose control of their mouth or twist their tongue. MIT researchers came up with (what they say) is the world’s hardest tongue twister. Here it is:

In China a restaurant has opened that is run by robots. There are 12 robots on the staff that cook and deliver food to the tables. They even have two robot hostesses’ that greet customers when they arrive. Each robot cost $6, 500 or the same as a year’s wage.

This just in about the ‘so called’ alien shadow seen on Google Moon, it was dirt on the lens of the camera taking the shot. There has been a video that has gone viral claiming to see the shadow of a figure standing on the moon.

Timex has added a new watch to their Ironman line of GPS watches, it is a 3-G connected smartwatch. It’s called the Ironman One GPS + and is made mostly for athletes because you can run fitness data to a website so you can monitor your run in real time.

NASA has revealed that astronauts in space suffer from sleep deprivation. According to a 10 year study it shows astronauts get an average of only six hours of sleep a night. NASA orders crew members to get at least 8.5 hour of sleep but that’s not happening.

The latest 'super' moon lit up the night sky in central Maine over the weekend and a little light show will accompany it with the Perseid Meteor Shower.

The worry about the future is robots taking all our jobs. Most people now believe they will create more jobs. There are many robots doing the jobs humans used to do, assembly lines at auto manufactures, warehouses and even hospitals. These are line work jobs and usually boring and require heavy lifting, robots are replacing people in jobs humans really don’t want to do.

Scientists have developed a chemical treatment that turns mice transparent. One day researchers at the California Institute of Technology hope to use this as a way to study how disease flows through the human body.

Can you believe the Mars rover ‘Opportunity’ has been on Mars since 2004? Seems like only yesterday! The rover has set a new record on the red planet; it has become the furthest traveled wheeled vehicle on another planet.

MIT graduate, Patrick McCabe, has programmed a robot that can play a game with you. The game is Connect Four and you can choose from four levels of difficulty. The game can even give you a hint if you need one. There are details on how the machine works at his website patrickmccabemakes...

In this day and age of technology, your smart phone probably has more capabilities than the first space ship to go to the moon, but on July 20th 1969, an American made the first footprints on the moon’s surface. This Sunday, July 20th marks the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon.