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Diving shrews
Animal world

Diving shrews

In Europe there is a very strange type of shrews: They are fully adapted to aquatic life, although they are still predominantly terrestrial animals with the scientific n…

December 16, 2018
Cave fish
Animal world

Cave fish

The northern cave fish, Amblyopsis spelaca, lives only in limestone caves in Indiana and Mammoth Caves in Kentucky (USA). Because they live in a difficult environment, t…

December 16, 2018
Glass fish
Animal world

Glass fish

Glass fish Kryptopterus bicirrhus has iridescent body, can see all parts of the body because the whole body of glassfish is almost translucent color. Drum body length is…

December 16, 2018
Fire toads
Animal world

Fire toads

The toad has the scientific name Bombina orientalis and is often used to call the Eastern fire toad. This type of toad is usually found only in quiet water like ponds an…

December 16, 2018
Warm penguins
Animal world

Warm penguins

It is often thought that penguins live in cold countries like the Antarctic, but there are Humboldt birds that live in warm lands. This bird is named after the name of t…

December 16, 2018
Mice do not drink water
Animal world

Mice do not drink water

Mouse kDipodomys deserti has bags on the cheek (in the mouth). Strangely, these bags can be used as food storage for weeks. Thanks to the body accumulates water from foo…

December 16, 2018
Polar bears swim 46 miles a day
Animal world

Polar bears swim 46 miles a day

Scientists find that it swims at least 46 miles (74 km) every day, even up to 62.5 miles (100 km). This is the first evidence that bears can swim over such a long distan…

December 16, 2018
Hot blood shark detected
Animal world

Hot blood shark detected

Salmon sharks in the Alaskan Gulf are cold with the same muscular bundles - with conspicuous reds due to blood vessels - similar to mammals: they release and warm the an…

December 16, 2018
Instructions on how to get rid of safe flash floods
Scientific application

Instructions on how to get rid of safe flash floods

Floods are not so threatening, especially when we have swimming skills. But flash floods, like what just happened in the northern mountains, were all of a sudden and bar…

December 16, 2018
Biochar: Savings for acidic soil, alum, poisoning
Scientific application

Biochar: Savings for acidic soil, alum, poisoning

The soil is degraded and washed away is a great threat to agriculture in Vietnam and the world, directly affecting the national food security and livelihood of rural peo…

December 16, 2018