Despite being the foundation of the modern West, the Romans had some pretty wacky ideas, and what they did with gladiator blood was one of them.
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For over a century scientists thought they understood the mineral composition of the Jenolan Caves, that is until they decided to take a closer look.
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In the 1960s the US was experimenting with nuclear weapons and decided to blow one up in a salt mine to make an underground lake of salt. Seriously.
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The human body is filled with vestigial artifacts from our deep past, and every now and then one of them rises from the ashes of evolution.
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Archaeologists spend a lot of time digging in the dirt and often come across old poop, but how do they know it's human poop and not a clump of dirt?
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Underwater ecosystems are quite the fascinating thing, even growing around artificial structures left there by humans, filling them with life.
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From brain-dead challenges to just plain brainrot, the internet is teeming with tomfoolery, but some viral internet fads are uniquely imbecilic.
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If you engage in political discourse, it may feel like the other side is just built different, and according to brain scans, that might be true.
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There are a fair number of organs in the body that are labeled useless, but there's one in women's bodies that might have a function after all.
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The hallmarks of evolution can be found everywhere you look in the body, but you might be surprised where you'll find an indicator of brain evolution.
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While boogers can potentially tell you something about your health, they're not a perfect diagnostic tool, and this myth is a good example of that.
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In the decades after their invention, the US has conducted hundreds of tests of nuclear weapons, and those tests don't always go according to plan.
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Although the benefits of medicine and exercise are well established, there are other things you could be doing to improve how your brain ages.
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Humans have done some wacky stuff for science, including sensory deprivation experiments on college students just to see what would happen to them.
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Even though it can be kind of gross, sweating is an essential function of the human body, but you shouldn't believe everything you hear about it.
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There are sensors around the world deep underground looking for a trace of dark matter. One sensor got a hit, but we still don't know what it is.
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During the Cold War, scientists had some strange ideas about what to do with radiation, but sending a nuke into the atmosphere didn't have the expected effect.
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There's more than one kind of neurodegenerative disease, and this form of dementia, often comorbid with Alzheimer's, is one scientists are trying to research.
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When you go fossil hunting, there's the chance that you'll uncover something that's never been seen before, at least not for over 100 million years.
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Type 2 diabetes can be a debilitating condition, and in addition to genetic and lifestyle factors, your blood type can actually influence your risk.
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Archaeology isn't always about bones and dinosaurs, sometimes it's about ancient turds and the unsettling discoveries that you find within them.
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The military was the origin of a number of different technologies that are now common in everyday life, including this life-saving medical device.
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Many of us have made do without food for a while, but few of us have done so for 7 days. If we had we might have noticed some changes in our body.
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In the 1940s, we didn't know a lot about nuclear weapons, so in order to study them we would just detonate them and record what happened. Science!
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ABO blood types have some relation to medical conditions, but they've also been tied to this health fad, which might not be as helpful as it's made out to be.
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Nuclear tests have had dramatic and devastating effects on the world, as well as some long-term ones, with radioactive materials lasting in this food.
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When COVID showed up on the scene back in 2020, it robbed us of more than just our time, it also robbed many of their taste, and we may know why.
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There's no shortage of strange historical experiments, and this one belongs on that list, showing scientists what starvation can do to the psyche.
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In the history of science, accidental discoveries often change the world in profound ways, such as the discovery of this radio technology in the '20s.
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There's no doubt that paying attention to your weight or body mass index is important, but there's one source of health info you're overlooking.
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Fossils can give scientists a look into the past, but this one might have provided the first evidence of a rather specific ability.
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