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Some are longer than a blue whale. Others are barely larger than a grain of sand. One species unleashes one of the most deadly venoms on Earth. Another holds a...
On September 6, 1522, the “Victoria” sailed into harbor in southern Spain. The battered vessel and its 18 sailors were all that remained of a fleet that had departed three...
For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. Compare that with the tortoise, which can age to more than 100 years....
Why do we buy certain products or choose certain brands? This is the sort of question advertisers have always asked, and there are no easy answers. However, there is a...
You’re standing at the ready inside the goal when suddenly, you feel an intense itch on the back of your head. We’ve all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient itch,...
You breathe in about 17,000 times per day. It’s a process you rarely think about, but behind the scenes, a huge coordinated effort is playing out. your vital organs, the...
In 1796, Thomas Jefferson received a box of bones he couldn’t identify. A long, sharp claw reminded him of a lion, but the arm bones suggested a larger animal, one...
Imagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there’s more than a 50% chance that two people in the group have...
On a December afternoon in Chicago during the middle of World War II, scientists cracked open the nucleus at the center of the uranium atom and turned nuclear mass into...
There’s a concept that’s crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee,...
