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• Science Quantum Entanglement Two particles born together can stay mysteriously linked no matter how far apart they travel — measure one, and the… 4 min read · 9 facts
• Science Sleep You'll spend about a third of your life unconscious — and science's best guess about why is that your brain is… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science Dream You dream for more than two hours every single night — and then delete nearly all of it. Science still can't say where… 4 min read · 9 facts
• Science Déjà vu That eerie flash of "I've lived this exact moment before" hits two-thirds of us — and scientists can now trigger it on… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science Caffeine The world's most consumed psychoactive drug works by impersonating the very molecule that makes you sleepy — and your… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science DNA Coiled inside nearly every cell of your body are two meters of a molecule so precise that it copies three billion… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Chicxulub crater Oil prospectors looking for petroleum found a 180-kilometer bullseye buried under Mexico — the scar of the day an… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Rainbow No two people have ever seen the same rainbow — each one is a private show staged by sunlight in millions of… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Aurora The northern lights are the Sun crashing into our sky — charged particles painting the night green, red, and purple… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Fingerprint The ridges on your fingertips were finished before you were born and will outlast everything but decomposition — and… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science Yawn Reading about yawning will probably make you yawn — a contagion so strong it jumps from humans to dogs, and science… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Photosynthesis Plants capture about 130 terawatts of sunlight — roughly eight times everything human civilisation uses. And the… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science CRISPR Gene Editing It is borrowed from the immune system bacteria use to fight viruses. In 2023 it became an approved medicine — and in… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Gravity It is the weakest of the fundamental forces, and it built every star and galaxy in the universe. Physics still has no… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Lion It is the only big cat on Earth that lives in a family, and the only one where the females do most of the hunting. Its… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science Bioluminescence: Life That Makes Its Own Light Some creatures make their own light — and evolution reinvented the trick at least 94 separate times. Dive into the… 3 min read · 8 facts
• Science Bioluminescence Life on Earth invented its own light at least 94 separate times, and one of those inventions is why the sea sometimes… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Soap Soap does not poison germs. It physically tears them apart, and the recipe for it is the oldest chemical reaction… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Plastic The first plastics were made from milk, blood and egg protein. The stuff we now cannot get rid of is barely twenty… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Fire Fire is not a thing. It is a reaction you are watching happen, and for the first four billion years of Earth's history… 4 min read · 11 facts
• Science Lightning Right now, lightning is hitting somewhere on Earth about 44 times every second. Each flash heats the air to around… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Octopus An octopus has three hearts, blue blood, and two-thirds of its nerve cells in its arms. A cut-off arm can still move… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Tardigrade Tardigrades are usually only about half a millimetre long, yet they can survive freezing cold, deadly radiation and… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Antimatter For every particle of ordinary matter there is a mirror version with the opposite charge. Physicists have made a… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Periodic table Mendeleev left holes in his table and described the elements that belonged there. Within 17 years, three of them had… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Fungus Fungi are not plants. They are closer to animals, and one colony in Oregon covers more than 900 hectares and has been… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Evolution Two men, working thousands of miles apart, landed on the same world-changing idea at almost the same moment. What they… 4 min read · 8 facts
• Science Atom A single human hair is about a million carbon atoms wide. The ancient Greeks named the atom uncuttable, then science… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science Diamond The hardest natural material on Earth is made of the same stuff as pencil lead, and it is slowly turning back into it… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Electricity Thousands of years before light bulbs, people made feathers jump with a lump of amber and some cat fur. The word… 3 min read · 10 facts
• Science Glass Old church windows are thicker at the bottom, so glass must slowly flow, right? Research says no, and the truth about… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Tide Every tide on Earth is slowly pushing the Moon away and making your day longer. Here is how the Moon and Sun lift… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Magnetism Ancient stones that pulled iron started it all, but here is the twist: copper and carbon are quietly pushed away by… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Sonic boom The crack of a whip is a tiny sonic boom. So why does a supersonic jet drag its boom across the ground for its whole… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Tornado In 1915 a tornado in Kansas carried a bank check to a field 305 miles away. Here is how these spinning columns of air… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Absolute zero It is the coldest temperature there could ever be, and nobody will ever reach it. Scientists have still come within 38… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Chameleon Its tongue can hit a bug in 0.07 seconds, its eyes look two ways at once, and some of its bones glow blue. The colour… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Limonene The smell of a fresh orange peel is mostly one molecule. The same molecule strips paint, dissolves plastic and prints… 3 min read · 9 facts
• Science Carnivorous plant Some plants got tired of waiting for good soil and started eating animals instead. One even works as a public toilet… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Animal echolocation Bats hunt in pitch darkness by listening to their own echoes. One clever moth jams that sonar so well that bats… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Geyser Iceland's Geysir is so famous that every geyser in English is named after it, and when it went quiet, people made it… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Firefly Some female fireflies fake the flash code of another species, lure in the males looking for a mate, and then eat them. 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Spider silk Weight for weight, spider silk is tougher than both steel and Kevlar, and a strand long enough to circle the Earth… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Hail In 2015, hail piled up four feet deep on a single city block in Denver, while the streets around it stayed completely… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Hibernation An Arctic ground squirrel can keep its belly below freezing for weeks, and a hibernating bear can go months without… 5 min read · 10 facts
• Science Coral reef Coral reefs cover less than 0.1% of the ocean, yet at least a quarter of all sea species live on them. And the… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Venom Animals invented venom at least 104 separate times, and the venom of one lizard now holds a treatment for type 2… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Glacier Some glaciers race 20 to 30 meters a day, while others sit so still that trees grow on top of them. And technically… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Bird migration Some bar-tailed godwits fly 11,000 km from Alaska to New Zealand without a single stop, powered by fat that makes up… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Cloud Some clouds are born from waterfall spray, and the highest ones of all glow after sunset 80 kilometres up, likely… 4 min read · 10 facts
• Science Pearl A pearl almost never starts with a grain of sand. It usually begins with a parasite or a tiny wound, and in 1917 a… 4 min read · 10 facts