What Actually Happens After You Swallow Chewing Gum?
According to Healthline, you may not be able to digest chewing gum, but it doesn't stick to your intestines as easily as it does to the bottom of your shoe.
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What Really Happens To Your Body After 10 Years In A Coffin
There are lot of factors that contribute to the state of a body ten years in a coffin, and every human body undergoes the same stages of decay.
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The Real Reason Astronauts Float Isn't Due To Gravity
Gravity on the space station is more or less the same as the gravity at your local Trader Joe's. In fact, gravity on the ISS is still 90 percent that of Earth.
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This Is When Humans Are Scheduled To Set Foot On Mars
While initially scheduled for sometime in the 1980s, it appears the soonest humans will set foot on Mars will be 2026.
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Wildest Extinct Prehistoric Creatures That Aren't Dinosaurs
Here are the wildest extinct prehistoric creatures that aren't dinosaurs. It's hard to imagine how some of these animals even worked at all.
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The Mechanics Of Using The Bathroom In The Space Station
Astronauts have the same basic needs up in space as they do anywhere else in the solar system, and microgravity makes their morning routine a bit more tedious.
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This Is The Most Densely-Populated Country In The World
You might have noticed how unevenly distributed the human species is. Perhaps this made you wonder: Where is the most densely-packed region in the world?
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This Is How Asteroids Form
We all know that asteroids are looming out there in space, just waiting for our orbits to align so they can take us out just like they did the dinosaurs.
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What Really Happens To Your Body After 100 Years In A Coffin
We know none of us is getting out of here alive, so it only makes sense to ponder the inevitable: What happens to our bodies after we die?
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The Biggest Science Events Happening In 2021
As we enter 2021, the world faces no shortage of challenges, from climate change to political instability, but there are also opportunities on the horizon.
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The Deadliest Birds Alive Today
Some modern birds have been known to attack people, often due to protecting nests and their young or scavenging for food.
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How Are Meteors And Meteorites Different?
All manner of objects move through the heavens and, more specifically, through our solar system. Some make regular appearances, like Halley's Comet.
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How Do Comets Form?
How comets form has long been subject to scientific studies, and how comets are created is still something we're still learning.
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How Long Would It Really Take To Get To Mars?
Astronauts and other experts in the astronomy field fully expected human Mars colonies to exist by now.
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The Truth About Halley's Comet
The next projected appearance of arguably the world's most famous short-period comet (Be honest: Can you name any others?) is set for July 28, 2061.
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The Chilling Truth About Solar Storms
From radiation illness to widespread power outages, solar storms bring invisible destruction from above. The worst part? We never know when the next might hit.
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How An Attempt At Disproving Einstein Led To Robert Millikan's Nobel Prize
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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This Is How The North Pole Smells
Who among us hasn't looked at photographs of the ethereal, sweeping North Pole and wondered what it's like to be there? What would it ... smell like?
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The Horrible Incident That Inspired Bob Dylan's 'Hurricane'
"Hurricane" is the story of Rubin Carter, a middleweight boxer who, at 30 years old and at the height of his career, was wrongly convicted of a triple homicide.
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Why Some People Cannot Sweat
The inability to sweat might (at first) sound almost ideal. People who can't perspire, however, have their own very specific challenges, including heatstroke.
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Why Some People Can't Smell Fish
Everyone is familiar with the smell of rotting fish, right? Wrong; it turns out the experience of getting a noseful of spoiled seafood is not quite universal.
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How Scientists Accidentally Created A Hybrid Fish
Life always finds a way. And that's exactly what happened when scientists tried to reproduce Russian sturgeon eggs through gynogenesis, using paddlefish sperm.
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The Truth About The 'Mother' Of The Hubble Telescope
Unless you're a true space nerd, there's a good chance you've never even heard of Nancy Grace Roman -- the "Mother" of the Hubble telescope.
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The Crazy True Story Of Exploding Lakes
The story of exploding lakes, or a limnic eruption, is true though rare with only two recording incidents in history, both in Cameroon.
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The Strange Connection Between NASA And Taco Bell
That's right: When NASA couldn't make a tortilla that would last up to six months, it turned to fast food vendor Taco Bell for help.
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Cracking Your Neck Is More Dangerous Than You Think
Cracking your neck is incredibly satisfying and feels good afterward, so what's the problem, right? Not so fast.
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Why It's Tricky To Define Day And Night At The North Pole
The sun may disappear from view at the North Pole starting on September 25, but that doesn't mean that total darkness sets in.
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