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Researchers used satellite data and computer models of glacial movements to create a new map of Antarctica as it rests deep beneath the ice. The high-resolution imagery reveals the frozen ...

Your favorite cotton shirt didn't shrink because you did something wrong. It shrank because the fibers finally relaxed. Natural fibers like cotton and linen contain millions of tiny cellulose molecules that naturally exist in coiled, crinkled shapes,

The secret formula for Coca-Cola is supposedly one of the best-kept secrets in the industry, although we do know that it allegedly does not contain cocaine anymore. Try to get your hands on it, and you could very well have a corporate death squad ...

Today I learned that carrots have two parts. There's the inner core (xylem), which is the vascular tissue that conducts water and nutrients from the soil to the rest of the plant. Then there's the outer cortex (phloem), the pulpy outer part ...

"I guess people chew harder when they are sad," William Wrigley Jr. said during the Great Depression, as his gum empire kept making money while tens of thousands of businesses went bankrupt. A 1918 Wrigley ad promised gum "steadies nerves." Now, with ...

Ai, a chimpanzee who spent nearly five decades at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute demonstrating that the gap between human and ape cognition is narrower than we like to think, died January 9 of multiple organ failure. She was 49,

The Hoba meteorite weighs about 60 metric tons and has never been moved. It lies on a farm in Namibia, right where it fell roughly 80,000 years ago. It's the largest known intact meteorite on Earth, and it's still just sitting there because moving 60 ...

What does "reddish green" look like? Not brown, not olive -- an actual color that's simultaneously red and green the way cyan is simultaneously blue and green. You can't picture it. Neither can I. These are called "impossible colors and the reason is ...

In 2016, a retired scientist in London discovered a garden snail with a shell that coiled counterclockwise -- the opposite of nearly every other snail on Earth. He named the snail Jeremy, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (also a lefty), and what ...

I recently found one of the funniest examples of the Flehmen response I've seen. Check out this goat at the No Regrets Farm Sanctuary in Monroe, Oregon -- nose in the air, lips all aquiver. He looks goofy as can be, but I love him. -- Read the rest ...