LatestWhat is Catatumbo Lightning? The nightly Venezuelan storm over Lake Maracaibo strikes up to 260 nights a year. Here is the science behind the eternal storm.
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CuriositiesWhat causes deja vu? The eerie sense you have been here before is a brain glitch where familiarity…
CuriositiesTime really does feel faster as you get older, and it is not your imagination. The science of…
CuriositiesBall lightning explained: glowing spheres in thunderstorms, the silicon vapor theory, the 2012 Tibet spectrograph capture, and why…
CuriositiesSailing stones explained: how rocks move across Death Valley's Racetrack Playa on their own, using thin ice, a…
CuriositiesThe history of knocker-uppers: Britain's human alarm clocks who tapped windows with bamboo poles and pea shooters from…
CuriositiesWhy do we get goosebumps? A clear science explainer on piloerection, cold, fear, music, frisson, and the million-year-old…
CuriositiesHistory of black cat superstitions, from Bastet in Egypt to a 1233 papal bull, the witch trials, sailors,…
CuriositiesWhat is the Mandela Effect? The shared false memory phenomenon explained: Berenstain Bears, Fruit of the Loom cornucopia,…
CuriositiesPetrichor explained: the 1964 word, geosmin from Streptomyces bacteria, MIT high-speed camera science, and why humans detect it…
CuriositiesA plant that vanished from the scientific record in 1967 just showed up on a private cattle station…
CuriositiesThere is a houseplant sitting in roughly half the apartments on Instagram that has been quietly solving a…
CuriositiesA robotaxi is supposed to take you somewhere. That is the entire pitch. You tap a button, an…
CuriositiesAn amateur naturalist named Eviatar Itzkovich was wandering the Golan Heights one summer night and noticed something deeply…
CuriositiesA South Philadelphia parking spot on Lambert Street has been quietly hosting 10,000 squatters for the past three…
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