The childhood game of telephone amply demonstrates how oral communication can be unreliable for transmitting information -- except among indigenous Australians.
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While planet Earth certainly relies on the helpful presence of its sun, the sun itself, with its own various actions, can also have a negative impact.
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Many people have skin care regimens as part of their daily routines, but humans aren't the only mammals to have a skin care routine.
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With both red hair and blue eye traits being rare worldwide, you might think it would be the rarest combination. But the genetics of eye color is complicated.
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More and more frequently, Earth is revealing the secrets of its distant past, including its shifting face and its impact on life of all kinds.
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Scientist Andrew Crosse may have been the inspiration for Victor Frankenstein, and "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley once attended one of his lectures.
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How 2022's Nobel Prize winners in physics proved Einstein wrong shattering our understanding of reality itself.
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If the "Jurassic Park" franchise taught us anything, it's that resurrecting long-vanished creatures might start out cool, but could cause collateral damage.
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Agriculture is the cause of a huge portion of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and beyond. Can these new lab-grown foods help save the planet?
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Dian Fossey lived amongst the mountain gorillas of Rwanda for nearly two decades, pioneering research and helping in conservation.
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If you've ever wondered where stars go when they die, you're not alone. Recently, scientists discovered the answer to this question. Let's take a look.
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A little extra income through a side hustle can come in handy for many people, with all sorts of potential, if perhaps unlikely, opportunities available.
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Doom and gloom are the norm these days, especially when thinking of the future of our species. Could another intelligent species ever arise on Earth?
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Beavers, those natural-born marvels of environmental engineering, aren't exactly newcomers to the evolution main stage -- they're even older than we thought.
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The James Webb Telescope revealed images of the Wolf-Rayet binary, a bizarre, beautiful phenomenon that had scientists scratching their heads.
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Reverse psychology is a common tactic for getting someone to do what you want. Here's the science behind reverse psychology, and why it can be risky.
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Over 250 million years ago, our planet faced one of its greatest mass extinction, known to history as the "Great Dying." Why did it take so long to recover?
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When a fetus dies prematurely, the baby can stay inside the mother's body indefinitely. One woman even carried a mummified fetus inside her for 50 years.
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What we know about a terrifying, prehistoric sea snake that some scientists think could have even eaten whales.
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Everyone knows about blood types O, A, B, and AB, but what about golden blood. Turns out, golden blood is the rarest blood type on earth.
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Just because you do some soul-searching and realize your primal fear is truly irrational doesn't mean it isn't real and doesn't have an impact on your life.
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A plant once believed to be extinct was found in a Hawaiian crater in 2021. This is the story of the Delissea plant's resurgence in Hawaii.
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It's pretty clear that all of nature is interconnected, from the smallest microbe to the largest apex predator, and when one piece disappears, chaos can result.
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According to a 2021 case study by researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, there's a man in Germany who can control the muscles of his pupils.
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NASA's UFO study team is set to take a deep dive into so-called unidentified aerial phenomenon. But what is the goal of their research?
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The oldest instruments ever found were flute-like and made of bone. But one find points to the possibility that even neanderthals played music.
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The past 50 years have seen more natural disasters than ever before. These are some natural disasters that haven't happened yet, but could.
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