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We Live In a World of Ants.
A group of ancient wasps decided they’d had enough of flying and lost their wings; what happened next…
How Do You Find the Average of Everything?
Finding the “average” of a set of numbers is easy enough to some people, but how do you…
How Did We Get Around to Solving for X?
We always seem to supplant the unknown with the letter “X,” but its history stretches far beyond its…
We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever…
What’s Up With That Pterosaur’s Teeth?
Lusognathus almadrava is a new pterosaur whose fossils were discovered in Portugal seem a bit bizarre for the…
Can Science Help You Make Your Coffee?
Food is, after all, just edible chemistry—surely we can use it to perfect the world’s favorite morning perk-up?
What’s Your Life’s Mileage?
Much like a car recording its own total traveled distance, you too travel around the cosmos, zooming without…
How Do We Build a Telescope On the Moon?
The James Webb telescope may be out there, but some experts think it may be high time to…
Life Almost Lost All Its Oxygen—And We May Be In For a Repeat
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a string of seemingly minor events coalesced into a major shift that…
How Do You Get Black Holes to Spin Fast?
Black holes seem like an immobile, immense entity out in space—but these massive gravitational behemoths do spin, and…