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Guinness World Records has released their list of the strangest world records from the past year. While most records are methodically planned out with a lot of work put in to them, some world records are just head scratchers. Here are just a few of the odd and unusual Guinness World Records set in 20024: […]

It is such a sick feeling when one drops their phone into the water. All of a sudden there’s a mad scramble to retrieve the phone before significant damage is done because we depend so much on our smartphones. They act as our photo albums, our password holders, our note takers, our address book, our […]

  German researchers at the University of Saskatchewan’s Canadian Light Source syncotron are studying efforts to improve rice production. Researchers examined soil samples from rice paddies in China in hopes of learning how silicon can reduce the need for phosphorus-based fertilizers and make rice farming more sustainable. The researchers found that silicon, which also plays […]