Big Oil giants from Texas to Saudi Arabia are turning to plastic to support future growth. The International Energy Agency predicts that “oil demand related to plastic consumption overtakes that for road-passenger transport by 2050,” and its top...
HOW THE SANDFISH LIZARD FILTERS PARTICLES AND WHAT WE MAY LEARN FROM ITThe sandfish lizard Scincus scincusspends its life in the aeolian dune deserts. To prevent sand grains from entering its lungs, it is hypothesized that the particles are aerodynamically filtered......
This move is powerful, but has a big risk too, as it can cause the Armorwing to lose large portions of its armor. Wind Blast[] Used by the Sentinel and the Monstrous Nightmares. Monstrous Nightmares can use their large, powerful wings to create a blast of wind that is so strong, ...
To most people, flies are just an annoyance. Sure, they're nature's best recyclers and play an essential role in our ecosystem. But that doesn't make them any more tolerable to the layperson. There is, however, a market that is beginning to consider flies as tomorrow's gold. Since th...
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Quicksand is not quite the fearsome force of nature that you sometimes see on the big screen. In fact, the treacherous grit is rarely more than a few feet deep. It's basically just wet sand that's so saturated, the friction between sand particles is reduced. The resulting sand is a mus...
Suppose you have a sealed glass bottle full of very sugary water and you stand it inside a big glass jug full of less sugary water. Nothing will happen. But what if the bottle is actually a special kind of porous plastic through which water (but not sugar) can travel? What happens is...
Fiberglass insulation, a man-made mineral fiber constructed from a variety of materials, such as sand and recycled glass fibers, is the most popular form of insulation in the United States -- more than 90 percent of homes in America are lined with the pink stuff [source: Spencer and ...
Sand is a sedimentary material; loose grains of worn out and disintegrated rocks. Sand is of fine granules with grains ranging between 0.06 and 2.0 mm in diameter. Sand is a naturally occurring fragmented material comprised of tiny particles of decompose