Rats driving cars, music and learning, cows and friendships, and very loud birds.
Different styles of whale song, massive solar flares and really hot chillies!
Our top stories from 2017. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from gravitational waves to Roman concrete!
SoT 280: The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes
- November 8, 2017
- Tagged as: anatomy, bats, biology, cats, cave insects, cheese, coffee, cognition, crocodiles, didgeridoo, ears, economics, fetus, fluid dynamics, foetus, Ig Nobel, improbable, medicine, music, nutrition, obstetrics, peace, penis, physics, snoring, twins, vagina, vampire bats
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from cats in jars to disgusting cheese!
SoT 271: Seductive Cockatoo Music
- July 20, 2017
- Tagged as: animals, Anne Druyan, Carl Sagan, concrete, golden records, life, mars, music, Romans, tools, Voyager
The secret to Roman concrete, toxic Martian soil, birds play musical instruments, and the man laughing on the Golden Record.
Super sticky frog tongues, intermediate-mass black holes, happy baby songs and a bridge of stars between galaxies.
SoT 67: More Wobble Boards
- August 3, 2012
- Tagged as: astronomy, Curiosity (Mars Rover), mars, music, NASA, pain, termites
Mars Curiosity, artificial jellyfish, pain, suicidal termites, deteriorating music quality & more!