Cockroach to the rescue
If you’ve ever wondered what possible use cockroaches are, a German startup has the answer: Tiny spies. SWARM Biotactics is seriously fitting Madagascar…
Author: The Smart Reader Staff
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Get that bear off your car!
In the annals of strange laws, a driving law in Anchorage, Alaska, enacted in 1982, is one of the most peculiar, according to Reader’s Digest. You may not…
Sweaters from seaweed?
A new effort to find a planet-friendly clothing material took a deep dive into fibers and landed on kelp. Yes, that’s seaweed and it has some things going…
How special is your birthday, really?
Your birthday, your special day. But how special is it? According to Reader’s Digest, about 20.8 million people worldwide share the same day of their…
Webb space telescope spots supermassive black hole on the run
Supermassive black holes usually stay put in the middle of large galaxies, but at least one has gone rogue. It’s 10 million times bigger than the Sun,…
RAMageddon is here
No, not Armageddon — RAMageddon, as in RAM for computers. It’s an essential component of pretty much any computer or computer-adjacent device, and the…
ByteDance signs agreement to sell TikTok, but what can users expect?
The American version of TikTok is one step closer to reality after a group of investors finalized a deal with parent company ByteDance to acquire the…
Treasure in the attic
Three brothers from San Francisco decided to clean out the attic in a house belonging to their late mother. What they found was astounding. The men, whose…
Dogs share wolf DNA
Your chihuahua is just a little bit wolfy. In fact, scientists at the Smithsonian and American Museum of Natural History, have found that the majority of…
Queen of the San Diego Zoo passes peacefully
Gramma the Galapagos Tortoise has passed away at an estimated age of 141, after spending about 100 of those years at the San Diego Zoo. Gramma was the…