Imagine that one day, you’re summoned before a government panel. Even though you haven’t committed any crime, or been formally charged with one, you are repeatedly questioned about your political…
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Without water, a human can only survive for about 100 hours. But there’s a creature so resilient that it can go without it for decades. This one millimeter animal can…
We consume food between 1 to 2.5 kilograms of food each day, and every scrap makes it through the digestive system which is the most diverse and convoluted system in…
When French mathematician Laurent Schwartz was in high school, he started to worry that he wasn’t smart enough to solve math problems. Maybe you know a similar feeling. You sit…
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….
It’s the height of the Gold Rush, 1850s California. A young tailor named Jacob Davis notices that his gold-mining customers are wearing through pants faster than they can patch them….
What do these animals have in common? More than you might think. Along with over 5,000 other species, they’re mammals, or members of class mammalia. All mammals are vertebrates, meaning…
How did Dracula become the world’s most famous vampire? More than 100 years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the most famous vampire in history….
“War and Peace,” a tome, a slog, the sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fall asleep, it could give you a concussion, right? Only partly….
The development of energy sources has been happening since time immemorial. In our world lot of different alternatives have been developed for the production of energy. Some whose use has…