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Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea nature video The submarine is Chinese and seems to be quite capable. A far cry and 66 year...

Tree Cover Density and Human Settlements in North America

The little-known tree that revolutionised global communication – BBC REEL BBC Global Ask Google Shopping  for Gutta Percha and all you ...

The Cranial Nerves Song Chuck Pergiel I'm thinking I should get Linux up and running on my computer, I mean I bought it a year ago ...

Your cheap furniture has a secret. Rex Krueger I've seen the kind of household items he's talking about, and I kind of wondered ...

Why a gentle touch feels like love Hannah Fry Just one of those things that we instinctively know, but we did not consciously know it.

Screwworm Fly The Village Hemorrhoid is talking about the screwworm making inroads into Mexico. Wasn't supposed to get this far north. ...

Mark Trail 'Talk' is a bit of a misnomer, but there is some kind of communication going on. Several kinds of molecules are being tra...

4 arteries supply blood to the brain Sam Webster That is quite the model.

White Privilege I was talking to some people and it occurred to me that I had some serious advantages in my life. My parents were both colle...

Some of the biggest—and most iconic—flying animals in all of history. And non-history.  From How Dragons Fly: When Biology Trumps Physics  -...

Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week Half as Interesting The trouble with the news is you only hear about disasters...

It's the Matrix, but for locusts. Tom Scott I don't see how this research is going to help, but I guess that's what science ...

How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites Veritasium Some people are terrified by snakes, some people enjoy killing them, others are enth...

Aluminum reacts with iodine . The reaction produces a lot of heat so that the iodine sublimates and produces the characteristic violet vap...

Yesterday it was the kind of vehicle you drive , today it's what you eat that tells us whether you are conservative or liberal.  Well, s...

Crystallographic structure of the reelin protein based on the PDB: 2DDU​ coordinates . Boghog Reelin is a complicated chemical found flo...

Neonicotinoids: What We Know - OklahomaGardening Detroit Steve sends us a couple of links: I thought Slate was on the up and up,  I n...

Are We Running Out of Vanilla? — Speaking of Chemistry My mom was always a stickler for using real vanilla. I am not surprised that vani...

The Most Spectacular Mutation in Recent Human History  By   Benjamin Phelan | Posted Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, at 8:20 AM A...