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W e humans bloomin' love a flower. Sniffing them, looking at them, lopping them off and popping them in vases. On land, there ...
You might have seen the claim online, and it’s at least partially right, but it's not the only other number of days Earth has ...
Also known as "angel hair", because of the silky threads the spiders leave behind, “spider rain” is in fact a mass ballooning ...
Things kicked off again in 1999, when the FDA reviewed the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. It found no evidence of ...
Not quite a gateway to hell, but northern Canada has a gateway to the Hadean Eon, named after the Greek God of Hell.
The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ...
The cover of the Golden Record shows a map of pulsars, for aliens to know where we sent this probe from, as well as how to ...
E ver wondered what a trip to the dentist looks like for a bear? Luckily for you, we’ve got an answer, and it comes in the ...
On September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft managed to circle the Moon. The achievement beat NASA’s iconic Apollo 8 mission by a matter of months. So why dont ...
For the first time in 15 years, you can see a game of shadows across Saturn. You won't see it again until 2040.
Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...