This Is How We'll Detect Life on Distant Exoplanets - Today on HowStuffWorks NOW

Mar 30, 2017 09:31 pm   Today on HowStuffWorks NOW   This Is How We'll Detect Life on Distant Exoplanets We might be only a few years away from seeing whether potentially habitable worlds are inhabited. How cool is that?       Whole-body Vibration Is As Effective As Exercise in Mice, Study Shows According to a new study, whole-body vibration has muscle and bone health benefits for mice.       Exploring the Therapeutic Possibilities of Future Sexbots What could the future hold when man and machine meet? This piece of short fiction explores the science and the sensuality behind human existence.       Becoming Better Solar Meteorologists, With Help From Some Monster Waves Explosive solar events are bad news for Earth, so it's good to keep an eye on space weather. Newly discovered "Rossby-like" waves could help them out with that big job.       Researchers 'Teleport' Virtual Lemonade Using Sensors and Bluetooth When life gives you water and pH and color data ... make lemonade?       Climate Helped Shape the Human Nose, Study Says Temperature and humidity might have determined nostril width.       Lost Songs of Holocaust Survivors Discovered in University Archives The voices of people who escaped Nazi death camps in 1946 resurfaced in a mislabeled canister, and researchers had to rebuild the tech to listen.       World's Largest Ship Tunnel Will Go Straight Through Norwegian Mountain To carve out the massive Stad Ship Tunnel, engineers would have to blast through 7.5 million tons of solid rock.       World's Largest Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Australia The colossal footprints of an herbivorous dinosaur found in western Australia might belong to the biggest dinosaur ever.       Wildlife Bridges Around the World Are Helping Deer and Crabs Cross Roads Safely Officials are building bridges and underpasses to help animals safely cross busy roadways, which keeps the motorists and crossing creatures out of harm's way.       Self-driving Cars May Have Unexpected Effect: Fewer Organ Donations Autonomous vehicles could prevent a lot of car accidents from occurring. And that's good news — except for one particular population relying on organ donations.       Seniors May Be As Hooked to Smartphones As Their Grandkids Although many think of 'smartphone addiction' as a young person's problem, seniors can get in trouble too. Just for different reasons.       If Dragons Were Real, Could They Breathe Fire? Dragon fire is an awe-inspiring thing, but exactly how would it happen? Real-world clues from nature point the way.     Copyright © 2017 InfoSpace Holdings LLC, All rights reserved. HowStuffWorks, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave, Atlanta, GA 30308 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Secret FBI Files on Dead People Uncovered With FOIA Project - Today on HowStuffWorks NOW

Mar 27, 2017 05:15 pm   Today on HowStuffWorks NOW   Will Circular Airport Runways Ever Take Off? Dutch researchers are proposing banked, continuous runways to handle traffic more efficiently and take up less space.       Secret FBI Files on Dead People Uncovered With FOIA Project The FBI keeps files on all sorts of people. You can read those files once they're dead if you submit a Freedom of Information Act request. One guy's doing just that.       Data Sent via Infrared Light Could Make WiFi Hundreds of Times Faster New research out of the Netherlands suggests a way to rethink how we get the data we need from the internet and other networks to our devices — at super-fast speeds.       Hot or Not: What Makes Some Places Naturally High in Radioactivity Surprisingly, living in a city with a high level of natural radiation doesn't have any ill effects.       Flintstones Are Alive and Well and Tackling Social Issues in New Comic When DC Comics rebooted "The Flintstones," few expected it to be a biting social commentary of the age, but guess what?       People Are Spending Two Months In Jail for a Reality Show There's no big money prize (or any prize) waiting for those who stick it out. So, what motivates them?       8 of the 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Cities for Pedestrians Are in One State What is it about this state that makes it so dangerous for those on two feet? A few things, it turns out.       Is It Time for the United States to Establish a Space Force? The Air Force currently handles U.S. military activities in space. But some experts argue that the country needs a new, independent Space Corps.     Copyright © 2017 InfoSpace Holdings LLC, All rights reserved. HowStuffWorks, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave, Atlanta, GA 30308 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list