Scientist Creates Tiny ‘Gingerbread House’ 10 Times Smaller Than The Width Of A Human Hair
“Compared to the size of a typical gingerbread house that you might buy in a grocery store kit, mine is 20,000 times smaller.” Canadian Centre...
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44,000-Year-Old Animal Painting Found In Indonesian Cave Could Be “World’s Oldest Story”
“It has always been assumed that the tradition of figurative painting arose in Europe… This shows the tradition does not have its origins in Europe.”...
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Scientists Measure The Biggest Black Hole In The Local Universe
At 40 billion times the weight of the Sun, this black hole accounts for 2.5 percent of the mass of the entire Milky Way galaxy....
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Meet Dogor, The Mummified Wolf-Dog Ancestor That Died 18,000 Years Ago In Siberian Permafrost
“The fact that we can’t [determine whether it’s wolf or dog] might suggest that it’s from a population that was ancestral to both — to...
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How Long Would Humanity Last In A Vampire Apocalypse? A Physicist Built A Calculator To Find Out
“I love it when we can apply mathematical models to even the most surprising things.” Wikimedia CommonsA physicist used scientific theory and mathematical equations to...
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Researchers Traced The Ancestral Homeland Of Modern Humans To Botswana
“We’ve known for a long time that modern humans originated in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago… but what we hadn’t known until the study was...
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Oktoberfest ‘Produces 10 Times As Much Methane As Boston,’ Study Finds
While burps and farts are certainly contributing factors, they’re only responsible for around 10 percent of the gas output. Cooking and heating appliances are the...
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Watch Rats Drive Tiny Cars In A New Behavioral Experiment
“I do believe that rats are smarter than most people perceive them to be, and that most animals are smarter in unique ways than we...
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Man Unwittingly Got Drunk After His Gut Brewed Alcohol Due To ‘Auto-Brewery Syndrome’
“For years, no one believed him… The police, doctors, nurses, and even his family told him he wasn’t telling the truth, that he must be...
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Mysterious ‘Blob’ With 720 Sexes And Ability To Learn To Be Unveiled At Paris Zoo
Named after the 1950s sci-fi classic, this organism is challenging scientists to reassess what we know about biological intelligence. It’s set to be unveiled to...
