Sharks are enigmatic creatures, but if there's one emotion we've felt comfortable assigning to them, it's severe crankiness. But what if it's not in their nature to be underwater rage machines? What if they're just really tired? Do sharks need a nap? Could they nap if they wanted to?
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It's basically a cartoon trope: the giant, seemingly unflappable and mighty elephant is reduced to abject, prancing terror at the sight of a plucky mouse (who's probably involved in an elaborate heist to obtain cheese). Is there any truth to it? And if not, where did this weird notion come from?
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One moment you're enjoying a nice cold treat with your two closest friends. The next, you're doubled over in pain as a thunderous pain claps your temples. Unfortunately, you're not Harry Potter sensing Voldemort, you've just got brain freeze. What is this scourge of summertime snow-sweets?
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We humans love to break records, and messing with gravity seems to be one of our species' odd and enduring obsessions. But what would happen if we decided to take things to the next level by convincing every human on earth to jump at exactly the same time?
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The human race has an odd relationship with the battered, lonely space-bauble lazily circling our planet. It means many different things to our species. But setting our love affair with Earth's largest natural satellite aside, what would happen if it weren't there?
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Getting struck by lightning is less like being pelted with fast food and more like being punched with Thor's hammer. So let's take a look at how Mother Nature's hammerfist works and what would happen if it hit you. Spoiler alert: nothing good! But possibly not anything necessarily deadly?
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These days, the word "daddy" followed by "long-legs" sounds more like a description of Jeff Goldblum than a colloquial title for a kind of arachnid. The truth is, everything you think you know about these eight-legged fellows -- like the "fact" that they're crazy poisonous -- might be wrong.
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The sun is the yeast which allows the dough of life to arise, without which humanity would never have bred. It comprises over 99.8 percent of all mass in our solar system, which formed around it about 4.6 billion years ago. So what will happen when our heavenly benefactor dies?
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A zombie apocalypse could be fun, if it goes the way that TV shows and movies imagine it. But the thing about enjoying a zombie apocalypse is you'd have to survive the zombie apocalypse first. Here are a whole bunch of reasons you wouldn't survive a zombie apocalypse.
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California is earthquake country. It's only a matter of time before the Big One strikes. Here's what we know about California earthquakes.
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Humans have a tough time adjusting to new technologies. That's certainly proven true for smartphones and screens, as anyone who can afford to has been staring at a screen for the last decade-ish. Here's what we know about headlines suggesting people are growing horns because of their phone use.
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High-speed rail in the USA hasn't made a lot of progress in the last 50 years. Here's why the U.S. doesn't have a high-speed rail network.
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Scientists don't just work on new technology and advancement; they also try to solve old mysteries. Here are mysteries scientists just can't explain.
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There's viral video of millions of black balls covering a reservoir in LA. But why? Here's the real reason that reservoir is covered in 96 million black balls.
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Cell phones are perhaps the defining blessing and burden of 21st-century life. Sure, it's wonderful that airport pickups are a lot smoother now, but at what cost? Ah, who cares. Gotta catch 'em all. Anyway, keep your phone charged. Just don't charge it while you're sleeping because...
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What is the real truth about CBD? Is it a wonder drug or a snake oil? Is it legal or illegal? And most importantly, should you feed it to your dog? Here are some of the most often-repeated myths about this mysterious substance.
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Gray hair has made plenty of people in the hair dye industry happy, but for many of us it's just a sign that we're about to get saggy and start complaining about kids these days. What's the deal with gray hair? Why does it happen? Here's what the scientists say about gray hair.
Read MoreGreat white sharks are big. Obviously. But divers recently met up with Deep Blue, probably the biggest great white shark ever caught on camera. Here's what we know about the massive great white shark.
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Humans have long believed that we're better than animals. When they start holding funerals and hiring hit men, though, that becomes a lot more difficult.
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A toilet that flushes with water is a huge luxury, and kinda wasteful. Bill Gates is out to change that, hoping to make these new toilets change the world, especially developing countries. Here are the toilets Bill Gates thinks could change the world.
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Hamsters are incredibly popular pets. The most common domestic hamster by far is the Syrian or golden hamster, also called the fancy hamster. But underneath that cute exterior lies a miserable pile of dark secrets. Hamsters are terrible. Here's the disturbing truth about them.
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Spiders are horrible, eight-legged, bazillion-eyed creatures of human nightmares. If you like spiders, you've forgotten that they tried to eat Frodo AND Harry Potter. And yet, scientists insist upon telling us that spiders are just misunderstood. Here's why you shouldn't kill spiders in your house.
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Brainwashing gets thrown around a lot in horror movies and sci-fi flicks and Cold War documentaries. And the idea of brainwashing is really scary, to be fair. We can't control much in this crazy world, but our thoughts should be safe, right? Here's the creepy truth about brainwashing.
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Left unchecked, climate change will have a catastrophic impact on the world. But climate change is also going to alter our world in small but very bizarre ways.
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What's that cell phone doing to your body? It turns out we should join Fight Club, because with the damage they're doing, a beating might be a kinder way out.
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These diseases will do terrible things to your skin, your bones, your guts, and everything in between.
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With every new sci-fi movie released, scientists love exposing all the things that movie has gotten wrong. But sometimes, movies do get the science right.
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