The domain of science fiction is shrinking into science fact -- the same week we learned you can make vodka from carbon dioxide, the company Air Protein has announced it can make a form of meat from thin air.
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At different times in history, a variety of materials have held the featherweight crown, with one in particular largely determined to be the lightest. Now, understand ahead of time, you won't be able to make furniture out of this stuff, but the world's lightest material is amazing in its own right.
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So the common knowledge goes like this: a dog ages seven years for every one year they're gracing us with their presence. Maybe it's our fault for being so difficult to live with, but who's to say? Are dog years real or full of balogna?
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If you're itching for a chicken that you can comfortably smuggle through airport security in your fanny pack, boy, have we got great news for you. Look upon the Serama, a breed of Kentucky fried excellence coming to you from Malaysia. The Serama came here to do two things: be small and act big.
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In the Marshall Islands, the so-called "tomb" that America encapsulated its nuclear waste inside is threatening to crack because of rising sea levels.
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Cow tipping has been a mainstay of the rural coming-of-age hijinks experience for decades, which begs the questions "what?" and "seriously?" and "is life in the wide open spaces of America's heartland really so dull that forcibly rotating livestock 90 degrees passes for entertainment?"
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There are several possible reasons that you might need to know what the heaviest object in the world is. Maybe you have a five year old who refuses to go to sleep until you tell them, or maybe you're looking for something to compare your rotund opponent to in a forthcoming roast battle...
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Cats are the ultimate high-landers in that they can plummet from high-rises and walk away mostly unscathed. In a kinder world they would also be Highlanders like Connor MacLeod. Then it could fall from the clouds without risking a whisker. But since they're not, which cat breed lives the longest?
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In 2019, a python measuring between 11.5 and 13 feet long was photographed regurgitating "an even fatter python of about the same length." Is there anything a snake can't cram through its cavernous maw? What's the biggest thing it can handle?
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Not only do snails look gross, they can make you seriously ill. A man in China learned that the hard way when a giant tapeworm was found snacking on his brain.
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Vodka isn't typically associated with much more than underage consumption and the taste of impending shame. Isn't it about time everyone's favorite flavorless spirit got some positive press? The folks at Air Co. would be inclined to agree. After all, they're making vodka from air pollution.
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"Does my (insert animal) love me as much as I love (gender)?"
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Remember getting called out of class to have someone comb through your hair with a popsicle stick? What was all that about? Why were they sending home ominous slips of paper warning parents about "infestations" and grooming children like chimpanzees? Lice, of course! But can they get in your beard?
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Just like mankind, Mother Nature likes to screw around with animals. This is true in the strange case of the world's largest frog, a behemoth from the rain forests of Western Africa. How big is it? Let's just say it's "Goliath" sized.
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Which cat breed comes closest to being man's best friend?
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In 2019, the residents of a house in Australia had a strange day when it started raining puppies. Well, to be fair, ABC News tells us it was just the one puppy. The adorable Wandi turned out to be a pure alpine dingo, making this random stray an extremely rare member of an endangered species.
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In the pantheon of shelled reptiles, there is only one turtle truly fit for royalty. It is the most expensive turtle in the world. And it isn't even a ninja.
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Ah, telepathy. The human brain is a ridiculously powerful organ, and depending on who you ask, the scientific development of mind-to-mind communication could either be the wildest party trick ever, the future of humankind, or the most terrifying development in history.
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Genetic family trees get creepier when you realize that the long, yellow fruit in your pantry shares about half your genes.
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Researchers at the University of Richmond got so busy this year asking if they could that they forgot to ask if they should, and in so doing, taught rats to drive motorized vehicles, wastefully forgetting to call the machines "ratmobiles." Yes, they taught rats to drive tiny cars.
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The fact that the butterfly effect is still associated more with Ashton Kutcher than actual science points to the obvious -- people generally find pop culture more interesting than popular science. But all that may change, because butterflies are now affecting what scientists think about evolution.
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We have a fairly good idea about the fastest dogs in the world. The fastest dog breed, according to Care, is the greyhound. But what about the slowest man's best friends out there? Is there really no love for them?
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Look upon man's work, ye mighty, and despair: the Flemish Giant. That's the name of the breed of rabbit considered to be the largest by rabbit standards.
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Hedgehogs: They're cute as a button. They're tribbles with attitude. They're notoriously difficult to get right when you paint them blue and put shoes on them, apparently. Here then, for the curious reader, is the unfortunate truth of owning a hedgehog as a pet.
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Originally founded as the American Messenger, UPS wasn't wedded to the color brown at the beginning. But as kings of efficiency, their color choices were dictated by cost saving. Brown didn't show dirt. Another way the company cuts costs is using translucent roofs for the trucks.
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Generally speaking, airplane tires don't explode during landings. There's some fascinating science behind why they don't.
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