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Hopefully your next car will fix itself and run on garbage, but even if you can’t achieve those worthy goals, you can still enjoy that wonderful “new car smell.” But is it toxic?

That distinctive scent is made up of the newly-minted metal, leather, upholstery and plastic that brand-new cars are made of. Some people have postulated that there?s even a “new car smell” spray that dealers use inside cars to entice us. In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi says that we’re smelling what are called “volatile organic compounds.”
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We don’t yet have a cure for AIDS, although we now have medicines that can keep people alive for much longer. But we do have a prevention, and it turns out to be something that has been around for thousands of years: circumcision.
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Scientists know that rain can trigger earthquakes. They also know that earthquakes and volcanoes may somehow be related. But do earthquakes trigger volcanoes?

A new study says that yes, they do. According to LiveScience.com, “The violent rumblings of a major earthquake can almost immediately intensify nearby volcanic eruptions.” This happened in Indonesia a year ago when, 3 days after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, two local volcanoes erupted. Researcher Andrew Harris says, “We found clear evidence that the earthquake caused both volcanoes to release greater amounts of heat, and lava emission surged to two to three times higher than prior to the tremor.”
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We love those tiny lapdogs, but how did they get so small, anyway?

Soon after humans began domesticating dogs 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, they started breeding them small. Now scientists have identified a piece of doggy DNA that reduces the activity of a growth gene, ensuring that small breeds stay small. It’s next to a gene known as the IGF1 gene. Medium and large dogs also have the IGF1 gene, but they do not have the same piece of DNA next to it, so their size is not restricted by that DNA.
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