Animals like dinosaurs might come to mind when it comes to ancient species, but scientists found that this surprising species is even older than they thought.
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Blue, brown, green, or something in between, the science behind the color of your eyes comes down to pigment and your genes, with a few complications.
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If you want to make gasoline, you're going to have to take oil out of the earth, which is very dirty, so why not make your gas out of thin air?
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Self-administered personality tests suffer from certain biases, as people can lie or trust too deeply in their results. But is the MBTI test any different?
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Unlike most other animals, humans often favor one hand over the other, but scientists have never known why. Now, however, they might have found a reason.
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When it comes to the geology of Mars, scientists think they understand what's going on, that's why the presence of this mineral was such a surprise.
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One of the best things about apples is the seemingly endless varieties they come in, and the difference between cultivars is pretty easy to explain.
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With ongoing spread of COVID and the flue, you might be tempted to think either of them are the most contagious disease, but they aren't number one.
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Back in the 2000s, a crater was discovered at the bottom of the North Sea off the coast of England, and scientists finally know how it formed.
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This scientific career sounds like it would be a fun spectacle, but in reality, it comes with many hidden dangers, even aside from the more obvious ones.
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Fireworks represent a mix of science and art, and their colors and striking effects are the result of applied chemistry and some clever engineering.
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The exact reason that Neanderthals disappeared isn't fully known, but they might have gone out not with a bang, but with some specific features of their blood.
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Among all the over-the-counter medicines out there, few are better known than aspirin, but taking this medicine too often can come at a cost.
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The South American rainforests are full of beautiful and deadly animals, among which are the poison dart frogs which more than live up to their name.
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Deep in the Canadian wilds, far above the Arctic Circle, a scientist found fossilized bones that shouldn't be there and changed our understanding.
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TV and movies have made us think that quicksand is a deadly mixture of sand and water that will swallow you whole. That's not true — at least most of the time.
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The T. rex is usually thought of as a land-based monster, but the term can actually refer to an equally dangerous beast that stalked the oceans.
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This dark energy project was meant to map just a portion of the skies over a five-year period, but it performed even better and faster than expected.
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Organ donations save thousands of lives every year, but you don't have to be dead to donate, some organs you can give while you're still alive.
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When it comes to varieties of rice, most people tend to think of just white and brown, but what are the differences between these rice varieties?
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If you go to the beach you may comfort yourself with the thought that nothing dangerous is in the shallow waters, but you may need to reassess that.
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Figuring out which of the world's thousands of rivers is the oldest is no simple task, but the top contender is about as old as fish or plants.
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"Project Hail Mary" really pushes the limit when it comes to non-humanoid aliens. But researchers posit that real aliens could be even stranger than that.
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With climate change melting ice and altering Earth's oceans, these Antarctic species are losing their ways of life, and very soon, they might be gone forever.
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Glass bone disease is more than just a plot device in a movie, it's a real but very rare disorder that affects tens of thousands of Americans.
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If you're going to be eating fresh fruits, you need to be washing them, but even though water kind of works, you should be soaking them in vinegar.
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Going to the lake to cool off is an integral part of summer, but getting into the water with an algal bloom is more dangerous than you might think.
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