Kitti’s hog-nosed bat is the smallest species of bat and arguably the world’s smallest mammal. Kitti’s hog-nosed bat was unknown to the world at large prior to 1974. Its common name refers to its discoverer, Thai zoologist Kitti Thonglongya. The mammal has a reddish-brown or grey coat, with a distinctive pig-like snout. Colonies range greatly in…
Spider, and Their Amazing Hydraulic Legs A big, hairy Spider skitters across the floor of your room; its eight, long, rangy legs moving almost robotically. It stops. Horrified, you picture its fangs clicking together, and its many eyes jerkily twitching to and fro. Suddenly, the spider scuttles under your bed. Though you wait five minutes…
Discovery of water on the Moon In September this year, the Chandrayaan-2 mission made for an international spectacle for its technological leap — before losing its Vikram lander. But its success came on the back of India’s first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, which entered the lunar orbit exactly 11 years ago.For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the…
How do Dolphin’s Sleep? Dolphin’s sleep in a very different way to the way we humans do as they must still continue to surface to breathe. Humans have prolonged periods of unconscious sleep and we are not aware of our surroundings for periods of time while sleeping. Humans have a breathing reflex and when we…
5 Simple Ways to Improve Your People Skills No matter what new technologies and systems you put in place to grow your business, how to work with people will always matter most. To develop natural charm and innate people skills requires effort along with trial and error. Here are ten simple ways to help improve your natural charm…
The Firefox logo isn’t a fox… It’s a red panda: Have you heard about Firefox? Well if you have, you might be thinking that their logo is a fox. I mean, it’s in the name, right? Wrong. What you see in the logo is nothing close to a fox. The English word for the red panda is,…
How Journaling Can Reduce Night Time Anxiety and Help You Sleep This ‘brain dump’ journaling technique helped one writer feel less anxious before bed. Here’s how you can do it If you’re feeling stuck and aren’t sure what to write, no worries – we have you covered. These prompts will guide you to feeling calmer,…
Android malware can factory-reset phones after draining bank accounts A banking-fraud trojan that has been targeting Android users for three years was update to create even more grief. Besides draining bank accounts, the trojan can now activate a kill switch that performs a factory reset . Brata was first documented in a post from security…
Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world: THE SMALLEST people in the world have been revealed as coming from Indonesia where the average height for a man is just 1.58m (5ft 2in). Though there are short people and tall people everywhere, Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people…
The Science of Mind Reading Researchers are pursuing age-old questions about the nature of thoughts—and learning how to read them. Mind-reading sounds like science fiction. Psychological concept used to describe the process of understanding what other people are thinking. We may not be aware of it, but we use mind-reading every day when we interact…
