Oddly, origami could be useful for snagging prey.
A single-celled protist called Lacrymaria olor uses a helix of pleats folded like origami to unspool a necklike protrusion up to 30 times the length of its body, or 1.2 millimeters, to quickly snap up food, researchers report in the June 7 Science. If a roughly 1.7-meter-tall person could do the same, their neck would reach about halfway up the Statue of Liberty.
The finding could help inspire new robotics, such
‘Hardest Geezer’ Russ Cook has denied knowing anything about the row over whether he’s the first to run the length of Africa after jokes he ‘needs to sort his mop out’ and is looking forward to his first Greggs after completing his 10,000 mile odyssey.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain this morning, the extreme marathon runner said: ‘It was quite overwhelming yesterday there’s so many people here and it’s amazing to have so much support.
‘I had a great party
A British man who has been running the length of Africa in a mammoth challenge which has seen him cross 16 countries and survive a gunpoint robbery and a kidnapping has crossed the finish line in Tunisia.
Russ Cook, an extreme marathon runner who calls himself ‘Hardest Geezer’ on social media, has covered around 10,000 miles from South Africa to Tunisia across 352 days, completing the equivalent of 386 marathons.
The 27-year-old, from Worthing, West Sussex, crossed the border into
For centuries, palm readers have been promising paying customers that the secrets to the future are written in the lines of their hands.
But, while there are no real love lines waiting to be read, some scientists believe that our hands really can tell us a lot about ourselves.
More specifically, scientists have studied something called the 2D:4D ratio which is the ratio between your index finger and ring finger.
This ratio has been linked to everything from sporting performance
