Category: Shorts

You Won’t Believe What’s On These 5 US Islands! #shorts #largest island #US #Hawaii’s Big Island Hawaii #square kilometers Yo! Here are the five biggest islands in the US, from biggest to smallest: Hawaii’s Big Island, Kodiak Island, Puerto Rico, Prince of Wales Island, and Chichagof Island. Big Island is home to the world’s largest…

WWII Medical Atrocities: Why Doctors Need To Know #shorts #medical and healthcare professionals #medicine #Nazi regime #modern medical history Yo, check it. Did you know that the medical community was all up in Nazi Germany’s business? Yeah, that’s right. They were helping out with all the experiments and stuff. And you know what? Some of…

Are Your Favorite Marine Mammals Safe in Captivity? #shorts #other whale species #animals #zoos #Marine mammals 10 years after the release of the documentary Blackfish, a new study has found that marine mammals in zoos are living longer and better lives. The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found…

Scientists Create First “”Human-Monkey Hybrid””! #shorts #cells #monkeys #chimeric monkey #Liu Scientists have created a monkey chimera, which is an animal that contains cells from two different embryos. This is the first time this has been done in a non-human primate, and it could have implications for understanding pluripotency and genetic engineering. The monkey was…

Nuclear Waste: The New Source of Clean Energy? #shorts #energy source #nuclear waste #Arkenlight #NDB Scientists at the University of Bristol made a prototype battery out of nuclear waste that could last for thousands of years. They called it Arkenlight. Their competitor, NDB, claims to have advanced on the original research but there are some…

Did the Virgin Mary Appear to 100,000 People in Fatima? #shorts #Sun #amethyst color #Various witnesses #Virgin Mary In 1917, three kids in Fátima, Portugal, said they saw the Virgin Mary. Mary said she’d return every month for six months, then disappear. The kids said Mary would only appear to the oldest one, Lucia, who’d…

Panda Panic: China Threatens to Pull All Pandas From US Zoos! #shorts #China #giant pandas #US #zoo 3 giant pandas left the US for China on Wednesday. Some say this is the end of panda diplomacy, as China is no longer willing to share its pandas with the world. Others say it’s just a coincidence…

Scientists Bring Back 144-Year-Old Super-Seeds That Could Save The World #shorts #seeds #hybrid plant #Verbascum genus #experiment 144 years ago, botanist William J. Beal buried 20 glass pint bottles filled with 50 seeds in sand. Scientists at the same university resurrected those seeds and found a hybrid plant, likely not meant to be a part…

Asteroid Destroyed! Watch NASA’s Epic Space Crash in Stunning New Video #shorts #DART #asteroid #Dimorphos #videos 120 words: NASA’s DART mission was a success! They crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid and moved it! The whole thing was caught on camera by a little robot that hitched a ride on the spacecraft. Now we can…

See The Most Colorful View Of The Universe Ever Taken! #shorts #paper #magnified star Mothra #distant galaxies #Haojing Yan Astronomers have combined the observations of the two biggest telescopes in space to create what they are calling the “most colorful image of the universe”. They call it the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster because it’s so…