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In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling exposed a hydrated DNA fibre to X-rays for 62 hours in a King's…
Jul 20, 2026
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Australia's Finke River, known as the Larapinta, is estimated to be between 300 and 400 million years old
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
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The world has three different 'tallest mountains' depending on how you measure
By Lachlan Brown · Jul 19, 2026
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In 1964, a 17-year-old named Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days for a science fair, and his recovery took roughly one night, not the…
Jul 18, 2026
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones invented a classroom movement called The Third Wave and shut it down on day five…
Jul 18, 2026
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The International Space Station loses about 100 meters of altitude a day and must be shoved back up by a docked Russian thruster roughly…
Jul 17, 2026
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Skeletal muscle burns through its entire ATP supply in about two seconds of hard effort, and a backup molecule stored at roughly 120…
Jul 17, 2026
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England and Wales recorded about 2,700 heat-related deaths across two 2026 heatwaves, with housing increasing vulnerability
Jul 17, 2026
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Tree-swallow declines vary by latitude as warming and spring temperature swings disrupt breeding conditions
Jul 17, 2026
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Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no…
Jul 17, 2026
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Some compulsions can look like discipline from the outside, which can obscure the distress involved
Jul 16, 2026
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The Great Pyramid of Giza is described as one of the world's oldest landmarks, but it was already more than a thousand years old by the…
Jul 16, 2026
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Deep-sea nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone contain metal tonnages that may exceed estimated terrestrial reserves for several metals…
Jul 16, 2026
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Two Asian mantis species just got Europe's harshest invasive label
Jul 13, 2026