Category Archives: Science

…And Then 1700 People Died.

[…] This sounds crazy, but it’s true. There are lakes in the world that randomly explode, and it works in much the same way as soda cans, but on a massive scale, and cause massive death and destruction. They’re called … Continue reading

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Sahelanthropus Walked Upright 7 Million Years Ago

When did the first hominins start to walk upright? How long ago did the first bipedal species emerge? I think that the answer to these questions goes back a lot further than we all previously thought and a few days … Continue reading

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Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth | The Conversation

Artist: Tom Björklund / Moesgård Museum, Author provided Here’s what we can learn from our closest extinct relatives.   Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we … Continue reading

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The Most Unusual Isotopes on Earth

Every element has a distinctive atomic number, including their own unique characteristics. Here are the most unusual isotopes on Earth! […]

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What is Centripetal force?

The terms centrifugal and centripetal forces are the most confued concepts in physics. Let’s understand what are centripetal and centrifugal forces and which to use when. […]

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What Are We Really Doing While We Sleep | Compilation

[…] Dreams can be scary, mystifying, and sometimes unnatural feeling experiences, but there’s plenty about them that are perfectly ordinary. Here’s a compilation of some things we know about dreams. Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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Trove of Jurassic-Era Fossilized Fish Discovered on English Cow Farm | My Modern Met

By Madeleine Muzdakis on August 28, 2022 The Pachycormus fossile. (Photo: Dr. Dean Lomax) What a ferocious find! One might expect to find a lot of cows, manure, and hay on a dairy farm. However, British fossil hunters Neville and … Continue reading

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Indigenous voices in water planning – ABC Radio National

Ocean waves from above. What does it take to survive on the driest inhabited continent on Earth? Indigenous people have tens of thousands of years of knowledge about this, but their place in the conversations about water planning and management … Continue reading

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To Infinity And Beyond | A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail on Acast

In the final episode of this series, Steve gives faint stars the side-eye, Helen sings a relatively short song about relativity and Matt gives a standing ovation to the desktop calculator that rerouted a space probe. Up, up and away! … Continue reading

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Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

There is one – and only one – group of mammals that doesn’t have alpha-gal: the catarrhine primates, which are the monkeys of Africa and Asia, the apes, and us. […]

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