Where Did the Word Asteroid Really Come From?
It wasn’t until the 1850’s that the word was accepted by scientists. Today, we use the word all the time. We just credit the wrong guy for its invention
This Baby Rogue Planet Is Wandering the Universe All by Itself
This planet, six times bigger than Jupiter, is sailing through space just 80 light-years away
What Does “Unprecedented Climate” Mean?
Starting in just 30 years, the coldest year will still be hotter than any year in the past 150 years
Cockroaches Stick to Different Neighborhoods Just Like New Yorkers Do
Cockroaches from the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side and nearby Roosevelt Island all have a distinctly different genetic makeup from one another
These Male Marsupials Put So Much Energy Into Mating, It Kills Them
Males with the largest testes, most fit sperm and longest endurance in the sack tended sired more offspring with promiscuous females
Men And Women’s Migraines Affect Different Parts of the Brain
Women’s migraines affect the parts of the brain that handle emotions
Secret Cameras Caught an Endangered Sumatran Rhino Happily Hanging Around on Borneo
Only an estimated 220 to 275 Sumatran rhinos - the smallest species of rhino in the world at just 3.3 to 5 feet tall - still exist
Archaeologists Just Found Someone’s 4,000-Year-Old Brain
Boiled in its own juices by fire, this brain has been preserved for the past 4000 years
Pufferfish Create Underwater Crop Circles When They Mate
There is a chance that it’s only the fine sand the females are after, not the formations’ intricate patterns or symmetry
Centipede Venom Is a More Potent Pain Killer Than Morphine
Of the nine possible sodium ion channels the centipede venom could have affected, it happened to correspond with just the right one for numbing pain
These Jellyfish-Mulching Robots Could Be the Savior of the Seas
These new robots can chew up nearly a ton of jellyfish per hour
How Do Canada Geese Get Ready to Fly?
In the movie Fly Away home that involved a goose shaped plane, but in the wild it’s just a few flicks of the neck.
257,000 Years Ago, a Hyena Ate Some Human Hair (And Probably the Rest of the Person, Too)
The brown hyena who originally planted the evidence most likely ate the person, though it could have scavenged on a dead body
These Mice Sing to Mark Their Territory
A lot of things sing to mark their territory - birds, wolves, howler monkeys. But you can now add mice to that list
People Have Already Managed to Litter on Pakistan’s New Earthquake-Formed Island
A massive earthquake last week created a new island off the coast of Pakistan
NASA Found Propene, the Chemical Used to Make Your Tupperware, on One of Saturn’s Moons
This new discovery fills in a gap in that chemical line-up, though experts suspect that many more molecular surprises await
What We Can Learn from Whale Breath
Researchers are trying to culture what comes out of blowholes from whales and dolphins, to see if they can use them as diagnostic tools
Krokodil, a “Flesh-Eating” Heroin Substitute Popular in Russia, Just Showed Up in the U.S.
Desomorphine, a cleaner form of the drug, was first concocted by the U.S. in the 1930s as a potential morphine substitute
Ballerinas’ Brains Are Desensitized to Dizziness
Dancers may reshape their brains with years or training, or people who have a natural ability not to fall over may be most likely to become pro ballerinas
Giant Hornets Proliferated During China’s Heatwave, And Now Have Killed 28 People
Entomologists speculate that the exceptionally warm weather in China allowed the aggressive, deadly hornets to proliferate
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