Why Do Your Towels Dry You Better When They’re Older?
And while we’re here, you shouldn’t be washing them with fabric softener at all.
Flamingos Make Tiny Tornadoes In Water To Trap Their Prey
Masters of fluid dynamics, the pink birds use everything from the shape of their feet to the chattering of their bills to vastly increase the number of shrimp they can…
5-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Ice Core Contains Sample Of Air From The Pliocene Epoch
Previous to this discovery, the oldest ice found dated back just 800,000 years.
Off The Coast Of California Strange And Regular Circular Structures Line The Ocean Floor
The giant marks were thought to be made by methane. But examining them closer, no methane was found at all.
Jupiter’s Aurorae Change Faster Than Previously Thought – But There’s Something Even Odder Going On
Combined observations from JWST and Hubble don’t seem to match.
In The Year 536 CE, A Truly Miserable Period Of Human History Began
Although it wasn’t all bad news for some parts of the world.
Why Is The Uncanny Valley So Frightening? And What One Frowny Robot Is Doing To Overcome It
The power of the ”uhhh… lemme think” face.
Why Did Ancient Silver Coins Have Owls On Them?
Without these coins, ancient Greece as we know it would never have existed.
Ancient Humans May Have Survived In Isolated Northern Scotland During Extreme Cooling 12,000 Years Ago
During the Younger Dryas event, Skye would have been cut off from the rest of the world by the Scottish Highland ice cap, so could people have really survived there?
US Measles Cases Pass 1,000, Speeding Towards Worst Outbreaks Since 2019
The spread of the dangerous disease continues across the United States.