DNA taken from trash used to map features of litterbugs in Hong Kong

Published 8 years ago in Science. Submitted by Kopi

An environmental group in Hong Kong has gone high-tech in its fight against street littering. It actually collects human DNA from rubbish to recreate the faces of those who left it, believing that public shaming will do a better job than government fines.

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How To Make Fire With A Lemon

Published 7 years ago in Science. Submitted by DryBarber

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Poop Splash Elimination - Smarter Every Day

Published 6 years ago in Science. Submitted by sux2bu

" I'm being told OB/GYN Doctors are playing this video on their iPads to help describe why some patients have problems with reoccurring UTIs.
I was reading a pretty intense paper on Worthington Jets and thought about how awesome it would be to create a video with a Fecal Si…
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A Solar Eruption in 5 Steps

Published 5 years ago in Science. Submitted by MindTrick

Scientists from Durham University in the United Kingdom and NASA now propose that a universal mechanism can explain the whole spectrum of solar eruptions. They used 3-D computer simulations to demonstrate that a variety of eruptions can theoretically be thought of as the same kind of event, only in different sizes and manifested in different ways. Their work is summarized in a paper published in Nature on April 26, 2017.

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How the heart actually pumps blood

Published 9 years ago in Science. Submitted by txo

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