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Science & Nature

Mind-Blowing Facts That Bring Science to Life

Close-up of a peacock feather’s eye, showing vivid blue and green structural coloration used in laser-light experiments

Technology

Feathers, Lasers and a Little Bit of Magic

A streaking Perseid meteor blazing across a starry night sky above a silhouetted landscape.

Solar System

The Perseids: Summer's Fireworks from Space

Image showing digital code to represent bots

Technology

Who's Really Using the Internet? Mostly Bots.

A smooth, lens-shaped lenticular cloud hovering above a mountain range at sunset.

Weather

The Clouds That Look Like UFO's

A fluffy baby chick in the grass

Animals

Baby Chicks Can Do Math

Before They Can Cluck

Photograph of Full Moon Near the Horizon by the Ocean

Solar System

Why The Moon Looks Bigger on the Horizon

Photograph of hand holding a lit match in the darkness

Human Behavior

Why We're Still Afraid of the Dark. It's not the dark itself...it's what your brain does when the lights go out

Human Body

Science Breakthrough (July 2025): Organs Grown From Scratch

Woman Underwater in Bathing Suit Rising to the Surface

Human Body

The Real Reason You Can’t Stay Underwater

Full Buck Moon glowing in a summer night sky with silhouetted treetops

Space & Physics

Why July’s Full Moon Is Called the Buck Moon

Image of Interstellar Object 31/Atlas

Space & Physics

A Rare Cosmic Drive-By

A Rare Interstellar Object is Visiting Us

Close-up photograph of a vibrant flower petal nest made by an Osmia avosetta bee, showing layers of purple and pink petals arranged in a delicate, cup-like structure.

Animals

The Prettiest Nest on Earth

Meet the Bee that Builds with Flower Petals

Close-up photo of a green pencil tip, illustrating the tiny size of a light-activated pacemaker

Innovative Solutions

This Life-Saving Pacemaker is Smaller Than the Tip of a Pencil

A woman painting on a canvas at an easel—reflecting a surprising passion sparked after a heart transplant.

Human Behavior

One Surgery. One New Talent. One Big Mystery.

Why Do Some Transplant Patients Wake Up With New Hobbies?

Close-up of code displayed on a computer screen, representing app creation without programming using Base44

Technology

Build an App Without Writing a Line of Code

Photograph of a full moon, the proposed future site of a backup vault for Earth’s knowledge and genetic material

Technology

The Billion-Year Backup Drive

Humanity's Time Capsule... On the Moon

Photograph of a great white shark, one of many that migrate annually to the Pacific’s mysterious Shark Café

Animals

The Shark Cafe in the Pacific

Image of DNA Being Manipulated in petri dish

Genetics

June 26, 2025: The Day We Started Creating Synthetic Human DNA

The £10M Synthetic Genome Project

Clark’s Nutcracker perched on a branch, a bird famous for its long‑term memory and seed‑caching abilities

Animals

How A Mountain Bird Remembers Thousands of Hidden Seeds:

Clark's Nutcracker

Innovative Solutions

3 Years Ahead: The Breakthrough Blood Test

That Could Outsmart Cancer

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