Thousands of little blue creatures are washing up on California beaches

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36 Views The Velella velella, a name so nice you gotta say it twice. Who are they? The tiny disc-like critters are colonial hydrozoans, classified under the phylum of cnidaria, and their eponymous genus of Velella (not a Game of Thrones reference). Formally titled the Velella velella (say that five times fast) you may know them as by-the-wind sailors. The sailors are a…

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A car-sized tumbleweed made quite a scene on a California highway

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36 ViewsA giant tumbleweed roughly the size of a Volkswagen beetle was spotted hurtling its way down a four-lane road in California this week. A tumbleweed roughly the size of a car was captured on video this week and posted on X, where commenters compared it to a giant hairball, belly lint gone wild, and…

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Alabama mom is 1-in-a-million, delivering two babies, from two uteruses, in two days

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273 ViewsKelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered twins, Roxi and Rebel, on Dec. 19 and 20, in what’s known as a dicavitary pregnancy delivery. Andrea Mabry/University of Alabama at Birmingham Thirty-two-year-old Kelsey Hatcher welcomed two beautiful baby girls into the world last week, delivering fraternal twins at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. But unlike typical…

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Why do we leap day? We remind you (so you can forget for another 4 years)

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39 ViewsA clock showing February 29, also known as leap day. They only happen about once every four years. Olivier Le Moal/Getty ImagesNearly every four years, the Gregorian calendar — which is used in the majority of countries around the world — gets an extra day: February 29. For some people, leap day means frog…

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So long, Stumpy. More than 150 of D.C.’s cherry trees have to go as water rises

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180 ViewsThe scraggly cherry blossom tree known as Stumpy on March 15 in Washington, D.C. At high tide, the base of the tree’s trunk is inundated with several inches of water. Jacob Fenston WASHINGTON – The famed cherry blossoms around D.C.’s Tidal Basin are in peak bloom this week, but for 158 of the trees,…

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A robot gets a face of living ‘skin’ that allows it to smile

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19 ViewsIf humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you? The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and human-like ligaments to give robots a more natural smile, according to Tokyo University researchers who unveiled their…

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