Watch Sniper Fish Kill Prey by Firing Water From Their Mouths
New high-speed footage shows how the fish produce a stream of water capable of shooting down insects several feet away.
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New high-speed footage shows how the fish produce a stream of water capable of shooting down insects several feet away.
The world's most famous cold case may have been solved, and the news was broken in The Daily Mail of all places.
They decided to be careful after the whole smallpox debacle in July. Good thing too.
The £910 million satellite array that will make it happen is so large it doesn't even fit on one continent.
The so-called miracle material has actually been used for something that could affect the day-to-day consumer.
Synthetic clothes create the perfect environment for the smelliest sweat bacteria to get funky.
Not the newspaper – the big shiny round thing in the sky.
It's certainly pretty, but the cracks could also be functional for microscopic applications.
Weighing in at 65 tonnes, the awesomely named Dreadnoughtus was one of the biggest creatures to ever live.
You are looking at the visual representation of space data collected by NASA satellites over long periods of time, turned into sound. Going through all that data could take forever, so they have taken to sonifying the data – which can be analysed in minutes instead of weeks.
Buckminsterfullerene contains sixty carbon atoms arranged like an American football. Scientists have now found a way to make them explode and kill nasty micro-organisms.
The new design makes them feel more like actual limbs, rather than a mere attachment.
Each mirror takes a year to polish. Think of how many cans of Mr. Sheen they must go through?
Trees are vital for human life: they use up CO2 and pump out oxygen, as well as providing food, fuel and, err, climbing frames, too.
We've been working on attaining sustainable fusion power for such a long time, and we have come a long way since.
It's to allow people to lease software that's otherwise sitting around doing nothing.
