Hydrogen peroxide, or the stuff your parents used to pour on your knees any time you crashed your bike, is pretty ubiquitous. You can find it in just about any grocery store or pharmacy. Does it say that you shouldn't swallow it right there on the bottle? You bet it does. But accidents happen.
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At long last, the final gaps in the animatronic animal kingdom are being filled in, as researchers at the University of Washington have announced the genesis of the Age of RoboFly.
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Equipped with barrel-shaped bodies, flat claws, and muscular limbs, wombats are natural-born burrowers. But their poop seems anything but natural, because it's cube shaped. Here's why.
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So you, like the terrifying Nosferatu, the quietly noble chupacabra, and Nicolas Cage before you, have heard the seductive call of the night and decided to give in to your insatiable lust for blood. What's going to happen to your body?
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If dogs are manipulative, cats are actively wrapping us around their little finger, quietly purring in their little heads as they have already made us do what they want before we even know it. For instance, that "crying for help" thing? Let's see how they do it.
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According to a study recently published in Nature, scientists have discovered that graying hair, that long-dreaded (that's wordplay, and it's great) sign of inescapable mortality, may be caused by stress. So stop worrying about it and it won't happen. Are you still worried? It shows.
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On January 24, 2020, the Rolls-Royce announced that they have plans to "install and operate factory-built power stations" by the year 2029.
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In news that will have Rick O'Connell saying something awesome like "Here we go again" and then rolling out his emergency firearms stash, British scientists have "resurrected" an ancient mummy. Sort of.
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On December 31st of 2019, the World Health Organization was informed by Chinese officials of what appeared to be a pneumonia outbreak in the densely populated city of Wuhan. By January 9th, the cause was determined to be a new strain of coronavirus. Two days later, the first fatality was reported.
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Humans need to consume water, and salt, to survive. But what happens to your body when you drink salt water?
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Per a 2017 report by Forbes, an estimated five million cubic miles of ice blanket the planet. If it all melted, the sea level would elevate by 216 feet. Here's what that would look like.
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Scientists at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub have observed a new form of inherited biological adaptation rooted not in DNA, but in the molecules attached to its surface. Now we'll explain what that means.
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Recently published scientific findings indicating that a newly discovered part of the immune system has the potential to treat all forms of cancer.
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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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Get ready, kids and parents: there's a new dinosaur name to memorize! It has often been speculated that a great deal of dragon mythology was originally inspired by dinosaur bones, so it's only fitting that a new species discovered in China has been named Wulong bohaiensis, or "the dancing dragon."
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In 2018, planes crashed into more than 40 birds per day, tying a record set in the previous year. Obviously, these incidents have spelled doom for thousands of birds as well. So what exactly happens when one of those poor feathered souls soars into a plane engine?
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Who are the modern-day humans who can stand alongside the likes of da Vinci, Newton, and Steve Jobs?
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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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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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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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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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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 --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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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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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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Losing a body part creates all sorts of obstacles, and that's especially true if you're a rock star.
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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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