Portal:Science/DYK

Full DYK list

• ... that Minecraft is an accurate model of the Universe to 18 decimal places?
• ... that the way to a man's heart is through a Y-incision, some rib shears and a sharp scalpel?
• ... that despite what your 10th grade Chemistry teacher said, neutralizing 4 M of NaOH using a buret is not particularly exciting?
• ... that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes smoking opium every Tuesday, due to a misconception that smoking opium prevents tooth loss?
• ... that you are in fact useless and will grow up to be fuel for this world's economy?
• ... that 70% of all berries contain napalm?
• ... that "real" cheese can take anything up to 17 weeks to pass through the digestive tract?
• ... that digital thermometers are called that because you need fingers to use them? Don't get me started on analog thermometers...
• ... that Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for "proton"? Or "Shake Shack"?
• ... that Pie Charts are available in many flavors, and are especially popular during the holiday season?
• ... that everything is pointless if you think about it hard enough?
• ... that there are more grains of sand on a beach, than there are beaches in a grain of sand?
• ... that you don't actually need to know any of this for the test?
• ... that the square root was initially invented for sinister purposes and doesn't actually occur in nature?
• ... that entropy requires no maintenance?
• ... that researchers discovered an entirely unique form of Horrible Snowman living in a remote region of the Ural mountains?
• ... that a new class of white dwarf stars was discovered in the data of the Slogan Analog Sky Survey? At the end of its life cycle, the star develops a tomato purée surface and atmosphere?
• ... that the fossil of a strange prehistoric great ape species, named Homo Sapiens, was discovered in Kenya and everywhere else.
• ... that NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office announced that an asteroid was set to hit Earth, but later retracted it when the object turned out to be an old DC3 on its way back to the Aviation Museum of Hämeenlinna?
• ... that researchers at Yale School of Applied Medicine developed a blood test which detects early onset Autism with 99 percent accuracy?
• ... that researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have found a promising way to make lab mice dance for their amusement?
• ... that Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, but you shouldn't feel badly for them since they deserve it?