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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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The surprising truth about Coelacanth.
Coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia.
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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…
Read moreThe Conversation Nobody Is Having: What Medicine Actually Has for Women Who Struggle to Orgasm
I saw a Women’s Health piece float through my feed this week — the one about millions of women struggling to reach orgasm, and…
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Vinland: what actually happened.
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.
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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 facts behind Eidetic memory.
Eidetic memory, also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at least for…
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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.
Why The Hum still gets people talking.
The Hum is a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise audible to many, but not all, people in an area.
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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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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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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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The facts behind Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century.
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