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Sometimes I wonder how scientists in lab think of new things to study. I envision it something like this. There’s a chemically-enhanced man in a white lab coat standing next to a counter top covered with a bunsen burner with a blue flame shooting out of the top of it and a computer nearby. He […]

Chuck Taylor All-Star tennis shoes are everywhere. I know they are in my closet. I’ve got two pairs tucked in there. That makes me part of 60 percent of all Americans, according to a survey that says more than half of all US citizens own or have owned a pair of the low tech athletic […]

Strolling up to the beverage coolers in the local quick mart now presents too many options. It’s no longer just a question of with which soda will I quench my raging thirst. Now, thirsty consumers have to wade through shelf upon shelf of chilled energy drinks, sodas, bottled waters, flavored waters, teas, flavored teas and […]

Nuclear waste and art are rarely combined in the same sentence. However, a storage facility for nuclear waste in the Netherlands is bringing a new approach to the problem. The Habog Facility has been painted a bright orange and is covered with giant equations to capture the attention of passersby. Inside the building, in addition […]

Once again, it’s Mother Nature to the rescue. You can’t turn on the news on television or click online to a news site without hearing about the housing foreclosure crisis. All across America, houses are empty and abandoned due to money woes. Many of those homes in warmer states like California, Florida and Arizona have […]

I’ve finally found a way to travel into outer space without having to die and have my ashes hurled out into oblivion. NASA is affording me (and anyone else inclined) an opportunity to send my name into space as part of the Kepler Mission. The Kepler mission is a search for Earth-size and smaller planets […]

PopFi proves once again that it loves a primate tale. From spear-tossing orangutans to chimps pimping out grooming for a little monkey-bumping sex, PopFi has the scoop. From a scoop of one kind to maybe two or three or four scoops of another kind. Some Chunky Monkeys in Japan may have been the inspiration for […]

I may be showing my age, but I’ll admit I watched the original episodes of the $6 Million Dollar Man when they aired way back when. Steve Austin was pretty cool. Winter the dolphin may not be a $6 million dollar version of the aquatic mammal, but she is sporting a tail that scientists had […]

There are just certain things anyone with a computer and access to the Internet eventually do. I’ll admit I’m no different than anyone else. I’ve Googled my own name and I’ve plugged in my address to Google Earth to get a sky high view of my neighborhood. It turns an Australian scientist put Google Earth […]

What is it with birds losing their feathers lately? Just the other day, PopFi had a story about a naked cockatoo. Now we get another featherless feature. Pierre the penguin has puzzled biologists at the California Academy of Sciences. The 25-year-old African penguin began to lose his feathers due to age. The feathers act as […]

The line just keeps on blurring between how we as humans differentiate ourselves from the rest of the mammals. PopFi has already let you know that chimps will trade grooming for sex. Now, wildlife photographers have captured the first shot ever of an orangutan using a tool. The primate had watched local Borneo fisherman use […]