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Space, biology, physics, and discoveries that redraw the map.
Cambrian explosion is not quite what it seems.
The Cambrian explosion is an interval of time beginning approximately 538.8 million years ago in the Cambrian period of the early Paleozoic, when a…
Read moreThe facts behind Burgess Shale.
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
Read moreThe 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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History
Strange turning points, forgotten names, and moments that still echo.
Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself (and What It Proves About Your Brain)
Try it right now: run a fingertip across your own ribs. Nothing. Now imagine someone else doing it — you flinch before they even…
Read moreThe surprising truth about Battle of Mactan.
The Battle of Mactan was fought on a beach in Mactan Island between Spanish forces led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan along with…
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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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Psychology
Attention, memory, habit, emotion, and the mind at work.
Ebbinghaus illusion still raises strange questions.
The Ebbinghaus illusion or Titchener circles is an optical illusion of relative size perception.
Read moreAmes 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…
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Bizarre
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 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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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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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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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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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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