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Luis trained as a zoologist, but now works as a science and technology educator. In his spare time he builds 3D-printed robots, in the hope that he will be spared when the revolution inevitably comes.
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Who will rule the world once we’re extinct?
8/13/2023
Which animals could take over if a virus wipes out humanity?
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Are there really dinosaurs in fossil fuel?
7/15/2023
Is your car really powered by dinosaurs?
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What is gunge made from?
6/24/2023
Who remembers gunge tanks?
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Which would win in a race, a centipede or a millipede?
6/23/2023
Bug wars: Who will reign supreme in the ultimate race?
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Where were my body's atoms a million years ago?
5/26/2023
穿越时间,发现或许ing origin story of the atoms that make up your body - a million years in the making.
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the-human-body
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What is the Magnus effect?
5/22/2023
When David Beckham curled a free kick into the goal against Greece to take England into the quarter-finals in the 2001 World Cup, he was exploiting the Magnus effect.
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How does carbon dating work?
5/18/2023
It's used to determine the age of organic materials (e.g. wood, charcoal, and bone) by measuring the amount of the radioactive isotope, carbon-14, remaining in the sample.
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Is swallowing your own phlegm harmful?
5/17/2023
Are you sure you have the guts to find out?
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Do animals have accents?
4/27/2023
Here's how some creatures adapt their voices.
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nature
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Stacked on top of each other, how tall would all the world’s germs and bacteria be?
4/22/2023
The answer will blow your mind.
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How different would Earth be, if it wasn’t hot on the inside?
3/13/2023
Earth has been slowly cooling since it formed 4.5 billion years ago - but what if it had never had a hot, molten core?
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Are you living in a simulation? The strange reason you’ll never have the answer
2/20/2023
Elon Musk has speculated that we might be living in a simulation. If we are, then what is real and outside of this simulation?
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Can you make a functioning candle from earwax?
2/12/2023
According to
Shrek
the movie, it can. But is this really possible?
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What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
1/27/2023
At 36 letters long, it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.
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Am I an adrenaline junkie?
1/15/2023
Adrenaline is a hormone that sends the ‘battle stations!’ signal to your body.
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What if there were no fossil fuels?
12/30/2022
How different would our world look?
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Why do bullets make a 'zing' sound in movies?
12/18/2022
In real life, bullets only 'zing' under certain circumstances.
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Why does writing my own notes help me learn?
11/7/2022
There's a reason why writing your own notes is good for exam revision.
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How does my brain differentiate different languages?
11/1/2022
Human language is a complex phenomenon, and many different areas of the brain must cooperate together.
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Can you bite through a human finger as easily as a carrot?
10/22/2022
Go and get a carrot from the fridge and try it yourself.
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science
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手
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Vertical farming: Why stacking crops high could be the future of agriculture
9/24/2022
It drastically reduces the space needed to grow crops.
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If you get swallowed whole by an animal, how long would you stay alive?
9/14/2022
It's unlikely you'd be able to crawl out...
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science
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What would happen if you fell out of a commercial aircraft?
8/18/2022
Thankfully, it's a rare occurrence.
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science
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How can I get better at Wordle?
7/22/2022
The daily guessing game where you guess a random five-letter word in six tries (or less) has taken the world by storm.
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