The Only Venomous Mammal To Lay Eggs
There is only one mammal on earth that lays eggs while also being venomous, and that honor belongs to the dangerous and frightening duck-billed platypus.
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What Happens When A Nuclear Weapon Is 'Retired'
Nuclear proliferation has been keeping people awake (and when they sleep, causing nightmares) for more than 75 years. Do nukes ever stop being nukes?
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Rocket Engines Produce Enough Heat To Melt Virtually Anything
It's no secret that rocket engines are hot, but they're so hot that they produce enough heat to melt virtually anything. Here's how they do it.
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The Unexpected Things Ravens And Crows Are Able To Recognize
Ravens and crows are some of the most intelligent birds. They exhibit a number of human-like traits especially when it comes to what is right and wrong.
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A Meteor Exploded Over The Bering Sea With The Force Of 10 Atomic Bombs
Shooting stars are not uncommon to see over Earth. But, when one explodes over our planet it can cause a mighty boom, such as one did over the Bering Sea.
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The Weirdest Dinosaurs To Ever Exist
From a meat-eater with almost-nonexistent forelimbs to a duck-dinosaur that paleontologists nearly dismissed as a fake, here are some of the weirdest dinosaurs.
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This Planet Has Rings 200 Times Larger Than Saturn
The Universe is a magnificent place. Scientists have discovered a planet with enough dust in its rings to form a new Earth or 200 times larger than Saturn's.
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Here's Why MIT Engineers Built A Machine To Split Oreos
The cream filling of Oreos notoriously sticks to one side of the Oreo, but why does it do that? Here's why MIT students built a machine to split Oreos.
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What Two Princeton Scientists Learned By Turning A Living Cat Into A Phone
there have been some weird scientific experiments in the past. One of the weirdest involved turning a cat into a phone, and here's what scientists learned.
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Here's How Many Years It Would Take To Travel To Neptune
Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun, if you don't count Pluto. We've gone before and may do again, but how many years does it take to make the trip?
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How A Parrot Was The Last Remaining Speaker Of A Dead Language
People have been teaching parrots to talk for at least hundreds of years, which meant a parrot became the last remaining speaker of a dead language.
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Why Researchers Have Such A Hard Time Determining The Sex Of Dinosaurs
Dinosaur history has been unraveling since fossils were first discovered. But, some things about these ancient beasts are hard to decipher, like their gender.
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Why The Blobfish Isn't Really As Ugly As You Always Thought
Blobfish have got a bad rap for being the ugliest creatures known to man. But, this deep-sea swimmer has a reason for looking like a pile of nasal secretion.
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How Much It Really Costs To Have A Dog
When caught up in the joy of bringing home a new ball of adorable fur, it's easy to forget that it will cost money to keep that animal happy and healthy.
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Banned Pesticides That Are Still Used In The U.S.
Oh, sure -- it's all "let's get rid of the weeds so we can produce more food" until birds die or fish disappear or people nearby develop some form of cancer.
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The Disturbing Reason Chainsaws Were Invented
The chainsaw was invented by a two surgeons in Scotland named James Jeffray and John Aitken. Believe it or not, they made it in order to facilitate childbirth.
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The Untold Truth Of Jamie Hyneman
Jamie Hyneman always clammed up on MythBusters, so what's there to know about him? Plenty. Here's the untold truth of Jamie Hyneman.
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The Lowest Temperature A Human Can Actually Survive
People die 20 times more often from cold weather than hot weather. It's worth finding out how cold it can get before your goose is officially, uh, frozen.
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Tapeworm Removed After 15 Years Of Eating Man's Brain
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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Scientists Create First 'Living Machines' Called Xenobots
If you take the stem cells of a frog's skin and the stem cells of its heart and Frankenstein them together, what do you get? Researchers call it a 'xenobot.'
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Respected Astronauts Who Were Awful People
Astronauts​ are the pillars of American society, chosen for their intelligence and physical stamina. But there are always a few outliers.
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How One Woman's Rare Sense Of Smell Helps Diagnose A Serious Medical Condition
One woman, Joy Milne, has a rare sense of smell that allows her to smell a serious disease on a person before they even know they have it. Here's her story.
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The Sahara Used To Be Home To Galloping Crocodiles
Millions of years ago, what is now the Sahara Desert used to be home to galloping crocodiles that ate dinosaurs.
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The Relationship Between The Weather Underground And The Black Liberation Army
The protest movements of 1960s America inspired films, art, music, and civil disobedience. Some took what they saw as a revolution a step further: to violence.
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Here's What Would Happen If You Fell Into Space
Without gravity and in a vacuum, our bodies don't work the same. Here's what would happen if you fell into space.
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The Most Extreme Exoplanets Lethal To Human Life
We are lucky to have the Earth because the most extreme exoplanets are more extreme than you likely thought possible and are definitely lethal to human life.
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The Crazy True Story Of The Weather Underground
.The Weather Underground carried out bombings and became one of the most notorious student-created activist groups of the 1970s. This is their crazy true story.
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