These Are The Smartest Living People In The World Right Now
Who are the modern-day humans who can stand alongside the likes of da Vinci, Newton, and Steve Jobs?
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The Truth About What's In Your Belly Button
Consider the belly button. It's one of your torso's defining features, but what do you really know about it?
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Researchers Created Self-Replicating Concrete From Bacteria And Sand
Gosh, wouldn't it be nifty if modern people created better, more environmentally conscious concrete without having to rip off the ancient Romans? A group of Colorado researchers seem to think so. In fact, they created concrete so green that it's actually alive.
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Is 'PigeonBot' The Future Of Drones?
Scientists at Stanford University's Lentink Lab have developed a so-called 'PigeonBot,' the unmanned aerial vehicle modeled after nature's favorite cowboy hat-wearing avians.
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Here's The Age Where You're Most Likely To Be Miserable
Hey, wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to find out just which particular age is the most miserable? Fortunately, Fox 4 News suggests that a recent study might have discovered the answer to this eternal dilemma.
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What Is The Tallest Animal That's Ever Existed?
The tallest creature to ever pound its massive feet into Earth's soil was, obviously, a dinosaur. But which one?
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Vantablack: The Truth About The Darkest Color On Earth
Vantablack --an artificial material blacker than black could ever be, and one of the unsung greatest inventions of the past decade. It reflects so little light that if you wore a Vantablack dress, it would be like your arms and legs were sticking out of a Lovecraftian abyss. How is this possible?
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The Toughest Animal On Earth Has A Surprising Weakness
A study published by Scientific Reports now claims that tardigrades, while survivalist little-engines-that-could in most situations, have a real glass jaw when it comes to taking a warm shower.
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'Solid Stardust' Is Oldest Material Found On Earth
In 1969, a meteorite came roaring over the town of Murchison, Australia.Riding atop it was ancient stardust. In a 2020 study, scientists dated one of these grains as being around seven billion years old -- making it the most ancient solid material on the planet.
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Rock Stars You May Not Know Are Missing Body Parts
Losing a body part creates all sorts of obstacles, and that's especially true if you're a rock star.
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Physicists Can't Explain Strange Particles Found In Antarctica
In an announcement presumably presided over by a mysterious husky whose sudden appearance nobody could properly explain, scientists are wrestling with the presence of mysterious, physics-defying particles that have been discovered busting up out of the ice in Antarctica.
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Scientists Create First 'Living Machines' Called Xenobots
If you take the stem cells of a frog's skin and the stem cells of its heart and Frankenstein them together, what do you get? Researchers call it a 'xenobot.'
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A Cosmonaut Made 'Space Beef' With A 3D Printer
Wouldn't it be awesome if they could make space food practically from scratch using a few cells as ingredients? Well, in 2019, a Russian cosmonaut on the ISS provided the first semblance of an answer to that question by making 'space beef.'
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Stud Tortoise Saves Species From Extinction By 'Getting Busy'
The Galapagos tortoise was critically endangered, until recently. Enter the San Diego Zoo's resident stud, Diego, who did enough entering to father an estimated 1,700 offspring over the course of a few decades. Luckily, giant tortoises have really long lives.
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Why Different Blood Types Can't Be Mixed
Everybody has a blood type, which indicates what sorts of antibodies in their blood. But they can't all mix. Here's why.
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First 'Space Cookies' Return To Earth
One of the pinnacles of space science came in December 26, 2019, when NASA astronaut Christina Koch reported on Twitter that the ISS team had successfully baked cookies in space.
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Thousands Of Alien Stars Discovered In Our Galaxy
Our actual galaxy has "thousands" of alien stars, just hanging around like it isn't even a thing. The reason behind this is as fascinating as it is weird.
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Scientists Turned Their Own Frozen Poop Into Knives
After hearing a story of an Inuit man who fashioned his poop into a frozen blade, scientists wanted to see for themselves whether it would cut. So they turned their own frozen poop into knives.
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The Truth About The World's Most Expensive Chicken
Could a chicken possibly be more goth? Or more expensive?
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Frozen LEGOs May Change Quantum Computing
A frozen LEGO block sounds like a handy way to both hurt your foot and get frostbite on your way to the bathroom at night. However, if you ask science, it's quite a bit more than that -- in fact, a stack of cold enough LEGOs might be enough to take computers into a wild, unknown future.
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Deep Space Radio Bursts Are Baffling Scientists
Galactus is coming. Okay, not really. However, astronomers have been getting riled up about a series of crazy fast radio energy lights in the sky which they can't explain, and that's enough to get any sci-fi fan hopping up and down.
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Newly Discovered Brain Signal May Explain What Makes Us 'Human'
What is it that makes humanity so human? Is it our capacity for self-awareness? Maybe our ability to create art and understand complex philosophical concepts? Then again, a strange, unique brain signal that might provide our brains with more "computing power" than science has previously realized.
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The Deadly Truth About Almond Milk
The almond industry, which has seen an enormous boom in the last few years, may be responsible for the deaths of tens of billions of honey bees.
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Chinese Paddlefish Declared Extinct
The Chinese paddlefish, also known as the "Chinese swordfish," is part of a group of fish believed to have been around since the Lower Jurassic period. Rather, it was, until those pesky humans came along and wiped the species right off the face of the Earth like doodles on a dry erase board.
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How Fast Can A Kangaroo Really Go?
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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How Long Do Koalas Really Sleep In A Day?
Your standard koala spends between 18 and 22 hours a day drifting off to dreamland, according to the Australian Koala Foundation.
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Gravitational Waves Detected For Second Time Ever
Discovering something for the first time is a magnificent thing, but it's not until you observe it a second time that you prove that the first one wasn't just a fluke. One of these great second times took place in January 6, 2020, when LIGO repeated its 2015 trick of detecting gravitational waves.
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