That brownish/yellowish gunk that comes out on your finger if you scratch deep inside your ear? It actually serves an important purpose in your body.
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You can imagine a white hole as being a black hole in reverse — but is such a thing really possible?
Though you might not think so to look at them, plants have a busy day.
Blood plays a vital role in keeping us alive, from delivering oxygen to the body’s organs to fighting off infections.
What we call mosquitoes are actually 3500 different types of insects, and they all behave differently.
Time ends when the universe does.
How did penguins end up with so few bones – and become lightning-fast swimmers?
Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.
A healthy diet can include some candy. But if you eat too much, it can interfere with your appetite for the stuff your body actually needs.
Only a planet crashing into it might stop the Earth’s spin.
Having intelligence helps humans survive.
In some ways, a space rocket and a passenger aircraft fly much the same. But there is one big reason we can’t just take an aircraft into space.
Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous people who view them as sacred.
A clue is in insects’ hairy feet.
Extended periods of rain are most likely found in locations where mountains are near oceans.
A bat’s body is really good at tolerating diseases.
The answer is more complicated than you might think. It has to do with how your body gets rid of old red blood cells.
Scientists are studying fires in Africa at different times of year to see how the smoke from these fires changes over the year.
A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not.
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