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Crocodiles Are Awake While Sleeping

16 Monday Nov 2015

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IFLS wrote New Study Confirms Ancient Legend About Crocodiles

Essentially, scientists found that crocodiles can remain on watch even while they’re sleeping.

…they are able to undergo what’s known as unihemispheric sleep, where only one side of their brain shuts down for sleep at a time, while the other half remains active. Not only that, but they apparently do so while keeping one eye open to watch out for potential predators… or prey.

People always ask writers, “Where do you get your ideas?” The answer? Everywhere. Especially after reading an article like this. The animal kingdom is full of strange, cool, and sometimes terrifying abilities like this. The trick is farming and combining the bits and pieces into something new to present to the readership.
crocodiles are awake while sleeping
But seriously, how badass is this? It turns out that a bunch of animals can do this, including marine mammals like dolphins and sea lions. Dolphins can actually continue swimming while sleeping.
Check out the article if you want to know how scientists figured it out (it’s interesting).

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World-Ending Lasers On The Horizon

08 Monday Jun 2015

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We Could Have Lasers More Powerful Than Exploding Stars In Just 5 Years (IFLS)

Scientists have been playing with lasers again. They’ve figured out how to create matter/antimatter collisions, which sparks bursts of gamma rays.

Yes, you read me right: gamma rays.

Gamma ray bursts are a powerful explosion of energy that are emitted from extremely massive, energetic stellar objects, like black holes or exploding stars.

Hasn’t anyone seen the Hulk? You know, big, green, angry, and unstoppable?

But it gets better.

Perplexingly, no one knows which mechanisms are responsible for GRBs

So we can create these gamma ray bursts, but we don’t know why what we’re doing causes them.

Sounds perfectly safe.

Now, don’t get me wrong, lasers are awesome. I love lasers as much as the next sci-fi fan. But this sounds… unsafe. Since we’re playing with energies in the leagues of “black holes and exploding stars,” maybe we should conduct these studies, you know, off-planet? Or in another galaxy altogether? Just saying.

Then again…

If we don’t pursue science, how will we ever get sharks with lasers on their heads?

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