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Rogue wave still raises strange questions.
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Pulsar still raises strange questions.
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Vinland: what actually happened.
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Noctilucent cloud is not quite what it seems.
Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere.
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Quantum entanglement is stranger than it sounds.
Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon in which the quantum state of each particle in a group cannot be described independently of the state of…
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What people get wrong about Mammatus cloud.
Mammatus is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud, although they may be attached to…
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History
Strange turning points, forgotten names, and moments that still echo.
What 10,000 Hours of Practice Actually Does to Your Brain
The “10,000-hour rule” has been repeated so often it feels like neuroscience. It isn’t, quite. The figure comes from a 1993 study by psychologist…
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Psychology
Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
The real story behind Working memory.
Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.
Read moreThe surprising truth about Checker shadow illusion.
The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H.
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False memory is not quite what it seems.
In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon in which someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the…
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Odd records, rare phenomena, and true stories that sound impossible.
The facts behind Hessdalen lights.
The Hessdalen lights are unidentified lights which have been observed in a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi) stretch of the Hessdalen valley in rural central Norway…
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Marfa lights deserves a closer look.
The Marfa lights are an optical phenomenon regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States.
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The sourced background on Judge C. R. Magney State Park.
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The real story behind Mansa Musa.
Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign.
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The surprising truth about Mary Anning.
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.
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Magnetar: what actually happened.
A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field (~109 to 1011 T, ~1013 to 1015 G).
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Tunguska event: what actually happened.
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons TNT equivalent that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk…
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Why Chicxulub crater still gets people talking.
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
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Icefish still raises strange questions.
Icefish may mean:
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