Category: Odds and Ends

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Spotify’s “A Decade Wrapped” List Includes Ariana Grande In The Top 5 By Daffany Chan Dec 3, 2019 With the new year almost here, it’s the perfect time to reflect on all the hit tunes of the year — and decade — that got you singin’ in the shower. Thankfully, Spotify has unveiled its “A Decade Wrapped” campaign, which gives fans insight into the most streamed artists and songs from 2010-2019. You’ll want to check out which of your fav singers and throwbacks made Spotify’s…

For the first time, scientists have recorded the “song” Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm, and having translated these electromagnetic waves into audible sound, you can listen to it right here. It turns out, the stronger the storm, the louder Earth “sings”. And yes, it sounds eerie. Our planet’s magnetic field protects us daily from the Sun, which is both life-giving and would wipe us out in a second, were it not for the field preventing the onslaught of radioactive winds generated by our star from…

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Over the last two years, gamma-ray observatories have spotted something incredible. Astronomers detected the brightest light ever recorded coming from the universe, reaching about 100 billion times the energy of a single photon of visible light. This incredible light was produced by gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), a rare cosmic event that features a short and incredibly powerful explosion. In three new papers published in Nature (here, here, and here) researchers detail the observations of two of these events: GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C. The 300+ scientists in the international collaboration detected…

Progress is inevitable. It touches upon every sphere of our life, and education is no exception. Students today are very different from those who were sitting in the same classrooms 10, 15, or 20 years ago. That is why the information they are taught must be presented in a different way. The use of videos during the learning process is essential. And there’s more than one reason why. In this article, we’ll prove that visual support can do miracles. In 2015, around 84% of American parents agreed that school tech…

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From the Birch forests in Belarus to the darting rivers of northern India, the 2019 British Ecological Society (BES) photo competition winners delicately capture the “vibrancy and intimate detail” of the world around us. Submissions from 1,200 BES member ecologists from more than 40 countries celebrating the diversity of flora and fauna found around the globe will be presented later this month in Belfast. Until then, IFLScience has compiled the photographs to take you on a tour of our planet.   Red Night By Roberto García Roa, Overall Winner A Malagasy tree boa perches in a tree. Roberto García Roa During…