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Look up at the sky and what do you see? Well, blue, yes. And maybe a plane or a bird, but otherwise ... nothing. Or so you think. It turns out that right above you, totally invisible, is an enormous herd of animal life -- tiny bugs riding the wind [...]
The vuvuzela, the traditional instrument we've all come to know (and love) from the fans at the World Cup, shares a special kinship with both alligator pits and black holes. And just in case you're worried, no, the vuvuzela can't swallow you [...]
Things happen when you spend time in wild places. Things that you can't explain. Like this: One day psychology professor Barb Smuts was walking through a Michigan forest when out popped a little mouse. And then [...]
Back in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb, creating what might be the greatest fireworks spectacular ever. People in Hawaii gathered on rooftops, sipping drinks, as they watched a radioactive rainbow display in the night [...]
Imagine you wake up one morning and can't read. Your eyes work, but the letters on the page have turned into squiggles. They make no sense. Now meet Howard Engel, a writer of detective stories, who has this condition, but amazingly, has found a way to trick his brain to almost read [...]
One of Agatha Christie's last novels apparently contains not only a messy plot, but signs of undiagnosed Alzheimer's. Likewise, early diaries by Catholic sisters revealed clues to the eventual fate of their brains. Those trying to diagnosis Alzheimer's say some answers may be in the [...]
Think we've never heard from an alien? A radio transmission recorded in Ohio and translated into six little numbers and letters suggests there's a chance we [...]
Back in the late 18th century, there was a young man who liked to spend his time inhaling a lot of different gases. He was looking for a cure to tuberculosis. Some of the gases burned like heck, but one made him feel sublime. But doctors said, "No, thank you; pain is a good [...]
Back in the 1770s, a scientist named Dr. Joseph Priestley was studying mice to try to understand how animals breathe and how oxygen moved into the bloodstream. One morning he came into the lab to discover a strange note, apparently penned by a mouse, wedged in the bars of the mouse [...]
A Slovenian jazz choir turns syncopated claps and stomps into thunder and rain. This simple, but astonishing, a cappella feat gradually gives way to a song — actually a cover of the 80s hit "Africa" by the Californian rock band, [...]
Pythagoras thought there was a heavenly chorus of sounds given off by the planets as they spun around in space. The only problem was ... no one could hear them! 2600 years later, a British design team imagines what that celestial choir sounds [...]
Imagine if the laws of nature not only allow the possibility of a universe different from ours, but also maybe three, or twenty, or a gazillion universes. Illustrator Sam Molleur [...]
Scientists have found hundreds of big, gassy planets that orbit close to "their" star, though solar systems with small rocky planets, like ours, have been elusive. This might be because they are hard to detect using existing techniques, but an astronomer says he's getting a bit nervous. He doesn't want to think that we are the exception rather than the [...]
Telescopes and probes send us images of stars flickering in and out of existence on a somewhat frequent basis. But Hubble has delivered something rare to the human eye: the birth of an actual solar [...]
Two different patients. Two different stories. But a shared delusion. Each is convinced that someone they love dearly is not that person, but an impostor. A curious disorder known as Capgras delusion involves the distinct feeling that the people around you have been replaced. And no one is certain what causes [...] |
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