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ift.tt/2UFLwJN With the help of their webs, spiders are capable…

ift.tt/2vRMIz7 When you consider the origin of life, the origin of the universe, or any other origin story, one question inevitably rears its ugly head: What caused the beginning? This apparent paradox has vexed humanity for millennia. It’s responsible for…

ift.tt/2HKIyJA Many equate the English moors with open grassland and bogs. However, they were not always this way. Once temperate rainforests, the trees were felled and fires swept through the land. Filmmaker Burnham Arlidge envisions a future where the forests…

ift.tt/2HIrynB OK. Maybe you would. But the lengths they have to go to to stock up for the winter *will* surprise you. When you see how carefully they arrange each acorn, you might just need to reorganize your pantry. Join…

ift.tt/2t3JAve Try CuriosityStream today: ift.tt/2sGWjS1 There are fossils of viruses, of sorts, preserved in the DNA of the hosts that they’ve infected. Including you. This molecular fossil trail can help us understand where viruses came from, how they evolved and…

  The flight of a starling flock at dusk, know…

  On his YouTube channel Mind Your Decisions, Presh Talwalkar…

Hübsche Mikroskopie-GIFs meiner Lieblingsmushrooms (nach Psyllos): Schleimpilze! –> „Bacterial biofilms…

Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images By Andy Coghlan   We may owe…

A huge quantity of evidence shows that birds are dinosaurs,…

The way human children speak is highly influenced by their…

ift.tt/2iiGzlc Joel Sartore/National Geographic Creative Adult Egyptian fruit bats have…

The only 60 years after Hofmann synthesized Psilocybin (the Magic…

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—- The Deadly Mystery Beneath Mount St. Helens // Mysterious…

ift.tt/2dGou0O Plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s visually dazzling Kunstformen der…

ift.tt/2eb3Rrs On November 8, the voters in nine states will…

ift.tt/2dkt5G4 The human brain is, by some accounts, the most…

ift.tt/2dQFxtt Back in the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud, the father…

ift.tt/29HYykH As if the magenta fish darting around Kenneth Poss’s tanks weren’t flashy enough, under ultraviolet light they morph into miniature rainbows. Poss, a cellular biologist at Duke University, and his colleagues genetically engineered this line of zebra fish to…

ift.tt/29EQWgV The death of vitalism was the birth of sedation. In 1828 the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea, an organic molecule otherwise found in urine that primarily serves to remove nitrogen produced in metabolic reactions from the body. This…

ift.tt/2a28BwN According to new research by astrophysicists at the University of Kansas, Earth’s early biology was tested repeatedly by fierce gusts of cosmic wind originating from twin supernovae some 300 million light-years from Earth. For weeks, the night sky may…

ift.tt/29pQdRl If you’re looking for liquid water on Titan, prepare to go deep, perhaps as much as 100 kilometers below the Saturnian moon’s crust, which is itself made of ice. When it comes to exoplanets, we always talk about the…

ift.tt/1Q4FkEi ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Exclusive: Why Microsoft Is Betting Its Future on AI Casey Newton | The Verge "Microsoft’s historical instincts about where technology is going have been spot-on. But the company has a record of dropping the ball when it comes to…