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The facts behind Burgess Shale.
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
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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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The surprising truth about Extremophile.
An extremophile is an organism that is able to live or even thrive in extreme environments, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or…
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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…
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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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Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
Ames room still raises strange questions.
An Ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion.
Read moreThe surprising truth about Chunking.
In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful…
Read moreThe real story behind Working memory.
Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.
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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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The 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…
Read moreThe surprising truth about Checker shadow illusion.
The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H.
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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 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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Pulsar still raises strange questions.
A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.
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