Somebody taking an embarrassing picture of you while you’re out drinking with your friends is a purely human experience. No other creature on the planet has to live through that humiliation. Except chimpanzees, apparently. For the first time ever, a team of researchers has caught chimps on camera while they share fermented fruit with each …
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You’ve got to love Earth. After all, without it, none of us would be here. With that said, we sure do abuse our blue planet like we have a spare. It wouldn’t hurt to think a bit more about the only home we have in the universe. Well, today, is Earth Day, so there’s no …
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Ladies, have you ever been ready for round two, only to have your snoring man sleepily tell you he’s fired every shot in his magazine? In that case, let us introduce you to the male medaka. He can keep going and going and going and going and going and… You do need to be more …
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Earth is under attack! Well, it’s not, but it could be. Pentagon receives hundreds of reports of UFO activity every month. While the vast majority of those cases are not related to aliens, it might be a smart idea to think where you would go to survive a possible extraterrestrial invasion. Fortunately, we now know. …
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You have something really important you need to do in another room. So, you get up, walk over there, pass the doorway, and… You no longer have any idea why you came over. We’ve all had this happen, probably more times than we can remember. But why? What is it about doorways that makes your …
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In the life of every man, there will come a time when you do something utterly harebrained to get some. You may not be proud of it, and it may even be dangerous, but you still do it. Just to get laid. Well, it’s the same thing in the animal kingdom. Although there are certainly …
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Mushrooms are very valuable. Not only do some of them taste amazing, but mushrooms and other fungi are some of the most important decomposers in nature. That said, they are a bit freaky. They’re not quite animals, they’re not quite plants, and they can pop up unannounced somewhere unexpected overnight. That, and some of them …
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If you have a computer powered by disembodied human brain, is it a man or machine? That’s a question that comes up in many science fiction stories where combining human biology with computers is possible. Soon, we may have to start asking that question in real life as well. An Australian biotech company Cortical Labs …
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Do you think you know these intriguing intestine fun facts? Like that your intestines help you breathe, well, kinda? Intestines Help You Breathe? According to Leonardo da Vinci, your intestines do help you breathe. He thought this because he thought the digestive system aided in respiratory function. In 1940, he wrote among notes that “The …
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Yawning is famously contagious. If you see someone yawn, you’re more likely than not to do so yourself, as is everyone else around you. Now imagine if the same went for other bodily functions — like emptying your bladder. That’s how it apparently works with chimpanzees. A new study has found that chimps like to …
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