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May 2026
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Science & Engineering
Almost every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was forged inside stars that…
Science & Engineering
If you dropped Mount Everest into the deepest point of the ocean, its peak would…
Science & Engineering
The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is essential to almost every animal alive today
Science & Engineering
The famous claim about archaeologists finding still-edible 3,000-year-old honey in…
Science & Engineering
There are more atoms in a single glass of water than there are glasses of water in…
Psychology
The rock formations in the Scottish Highlands and western Newfoundland match each…
Science & Engineering
Saturn is so light for its size that if you could find an ocean large enough, the…
Human Factors
Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca
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In the 1960s an MIT scientist built ELIZA, a simple program that did little more…
Science & Engineering
The longest-running laboratory experiment in the world began at the University of…
Science & Engineering
Sharks have been swimming in Earth's oceans for roughly 450 million years
Science & Engineering
The Sun might look yellow, but seen from space without an atmosphere filtering its…
Science & Engineering
The Pacific Ocean is so vast that it's larger than every continent on Earth combined
Psychology
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the Earth, but the energy…
Science & Engineering