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Knowledge Is Beautiful

There are a lot of really beautiful places in the world, but I think it's fair to say that not all beautiful places are created equal. In...

1. The airbag in 1952, John Hetrick, a retired industrial engineer, avoided an accident with his Chrysler in the last minute.The rest of...

To look at this flourishing mass of plant life you’d think David Latimer was a green-fingered genius. Truth be told, however, his bottle...

An experiment was conducted by NASA to check the effect of different drugs on a spider's web spinning ability. The aim was to see if...

Tardigrades, the wonder species. Also called water bears. Most likely to survive an apocalypse. Or for that matter, many apocalypses. ...

The True Size of Africa Africa is much bigger than what it looks like on most maps of the world. How much bigger? Well, you could fit...

Only “seen” when swallowing up an unfortunate gas cloud or wayward star, black holes remain an enigma. With one of these bodies at the...

The hype around The World Health Organization’s study that bacon will kill you as fast as cigarettes has finally started to slow since it...

The Socotra Archipelago lies 380 km to the south of Ras Fartak on the Arabian Sea coast of Yemen. It includes a group of islands –...

“Hello, Mx. Smith.” That’s not a typo in the above prefix — it represents one way to appropriately address an individual whose gender...