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Do You Dream In Color?
Studies from the 1940s and 1950s showed that most people reported dreaming in black and white, a stark…
The Crops We’ve All Forgotten About
Plants like knotweed, sumpweed, and goosefoot were domesticated by Indigenous peoples in North America thousands of years ago…
The Unique Connection Between Computers and Looms
Invented by Joseph-Marie Jacquard in the early 1800s, the Jacquard loom revolutionized textile manufacturing by using punch cards…
Demystifying the “Rainbow Mountains”
The Zhangye Danxia mountains in China are made up of fossilized soil layers (paleosols), preserving over 100 million…
Octopuses Are Assembling Fish “Armies”
Despite being solitary creatures, octopuses like “Dave” collaborate with fish to hunt more efficiently. The fish locate prey,…
Paints Weren’t Always So Safe
Historical paints like lead white, cinnabar red, and minimum orange were vibrant but dangerous. Lead-based pigments caused severe…
Do Essential Oils Work?
Some essential oils, like peppermint oil, have proven benefits for managing IBS. Its menthol component relaxes smooth muscles…
Our Quest to Save Wheat
Wheat rust, a fast-spreading fungal disease, threatens the world’s most widely grown crop, which provides 20% of the…
Where Did All This Water Come From?
During its formation in the protoplanetary disk, Earth was located too close to the Sun for ice to…
Our Real-Life “Hobbit” Cousins
Found in 2003 in Liang Bua Cave, Indonesia, Homo floresiensis (“hobbits”) were a diminutive hominin species standing about…