Category: Science

For all you nature lovers check out this giant hogweed found by Christen Adolfi in Oswego, NY. It can grow up to 15 feet tall and have flowers 2 ft. in diameter! It may be pretty but I found out that the sap can make you light sensitive so that large blisters or bluish purple…

“When a blood vessel is cut, the fluid that sustains life begins to leak away. In response, tiny platelets melt, like snowflakes, spin out a gossamer web of fibrinogen. Red blood cells collect in this web, like autos crashing into each other when the road is blocked. Soon the tenuous wall of red cells thickens…