Nature's majesty is nothing to us if it isn't drenched in hot, nasty speed. The quicker the animal, the greater its chances of receiving public adoration. What, then, of the kangaroo? Is it speedy and sultry? Here's how fast a kangaroo can go.
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Earth's lifetime is not infinite, as the Blue Marble will eventually be swallowed up by the Sun millions of years into the future. If we make it that long.
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In a disturbingly literal instance of picking your poison, instead of swishing Listerine, some people swig it like booze. Here's what happens when you drink mouthwash.
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Located at the lowest point on Earth's surface, per Britannica, the Dead Sea -- or "Sea of Death" (Al-Baḥr Al-Mayyit) as it's called in Arabic -- isn't a lake of fire, but it burns like hell. And it's not doing too well. In fact, it's dying... so to speak.
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The notion that we are all organic life forms existing in a universe created through natural processes may seem like an unassailable fact. But there's evidence that points to a different possibility: like Neo before he took the red pill, we might be living inside an artificial simulation.
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It might be hard to imagine legendary Jurassic dinosaurs lording over Earth alongside dinosaurs the size of small hummingbirds. Luckily, you don't have to imagine because scientists have unearthed physical proof of a super tiny flying dino.
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All the vastness of space is really, really big. And it's filled with really, really big stuff. Individual objects in space are enormous in and of themselves.
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Music certainly has soothing charms. Some workplaces play music to relax workers, make them more productive. What cows? How about virtual reality?
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If we've learned anything during the coronavirus pandemic, it's that things that we thought would likely never happen in our lifetime can and will.
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On December 3, 2014, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 was launched and set out on a four-year journey to the asteroid Ryugu (162173).
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The Stelliferous Era is the era we are living in right now, the only era in which the stars and life as we know it can exist, before the cosmos comes to an end.
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How big is big? When it comes to the size of black holes, the numbers are almost inconceivably large -- billions upon billions upon billions.
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There are Baby Boomers, and Millennials, as well as Gen X and Gen Y. Clearly, there really is something in a name, as well as in a birth year.
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Animals have long served useful purposes, aiding human beings in various tasks, or just providing companionship. How about detecting radiation?
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Elon Musk is planning to create humanoid robots named "Optimus," using the same technology as the self-driving car. Here's the truth behind these robots.
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Sometimes scientists notice things that no one else notices, and the world thinks they're crazy. Here are the scientists who were ahead of their time.
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There are infinite ways to die, but some are worse than others. Here are the most painful ways to die, according to science.
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The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event took place 400 million years earlier than the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction event. Here's what happened.
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Time might fly, time might run out, time might drag, but no matter what, it only exists as we experience it in the present. Unless, possibly, it doesn't.
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The way things are going, humanity may well be headed for extinction. Here is the truth about the black box recording the end of civilization.
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According to the World Health Organization, there are over 3,000 species of snakes in the world, but only 600 of them are venomous.
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Millikan was very much an engineer whose Nobel Prize derived from two separate contributions: the "oil drop experiment" and the "photoelectric experiment."
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Apparently forgetting that children, especially very young children, will put anything and everything they can in their mouths, they came up with Aqua Dots.
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While most of what we've collected of the skeletal remains of prehistoric sharks is of the toothy variety, one underwater excavation brought us something else.
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Contrary to what many think, tarantulas are not generally a threat to human life, and they can't (and won't) try to eat you. But what will they eat?
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Out of all the viruses that pose substantial public health risks, the rabies virus is one of the few likely to be fatal without immediate treatment.
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There are various ideas about how the universe works, but this radical theory suggests our universe repeats in cycles.
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