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Space, biology, physics, and discoveries that redraw the map.
The surprising truth about Superconductivity.
Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance is exactly zero and magnetic fields are expelled from the…
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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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Rogue wave still raises strange questions.
Rogue waves are large and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated structures such as lighthouses.
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History
Strange turning points, forgotten names, and moments that still echo.
The 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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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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Vinland: what actually happened.
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings.
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Psychology
Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
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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Dunning–Kruger effect is not quite what it seems.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly…
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The simple version of Phi phenomenon.
The term phi phenomenon is used in a narrow sense for an apparent motion that is observed if two nearby optical stimuli are presented…
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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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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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The surprising truth about Mary Anning.
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.
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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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