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Queen Ants Don鈥檛 Have a Divine Right to Their Thrones, Just the Right Genetics

2 Aug 2018

Humans have classified more than 12,500 species of ants, and there are an estimated 10,000 more waiting to be discovered. Besides their incredible strength, almost all of these species have...

Can Nike's New Shoes Really Make You Run Faster?

26 Jul 2018

A New York Times鈥 study of 500,000 race times, set wearing聽Vaporflys and other shoes, confirmed Nike鈥檚 claims. They found that Vaporflys allowed a runner to run 1% faster than the next-fastest shoe...

The Luminescent Chemistry of Lava Lamps

19 Jul 2018

If you think back to the 60鈥檚 and 70鈥檚 your memories are probably illuminated by a lamp filled with swirling globs of colourful goop that really didn鈥檛 shed much light at all....

It鈥檚 Not the Smoke from a Joint That Makes Your Eyes Red

12 Jul 2018

The familiar red and glassy-eyed stare of someone who鈥檚 high was previously thought to be due to the irritation of eyes by pot smoke. But, now we know that weed makes your eyes red for the same...

Fake Snake News: How Not to Identify a Poisonous Snake

10 Jul 2018

There are almost no poisonous snakes. That鈥檚 because for something to be poisonous means it鈥檚 toxic if ingested. Like hemlock.

Science Says Scotch Tastes Better Watered Down

5 Jul 2018

Everyone knows that oil floats on water. That鈥檚 because oil is nonpolar, and water is polar. These terms describe the arrangement of charges in their structure: nonpolar means a molecule has no net...

Before the Breathalyzer There Was the Drunkometer

4 Jul 2018

The idea of a mechanism to measure the alcohol a person has consumed dates back quite far.

There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth

28 Jun 2018

Think of your last card game 鈥 euchre, poker, Go Fish, whatever it was. Would you believe every time you gave the whole deck a proper shuffle, you were holding a sequence of cards which had never...

Measles: the plague that ruined Rome

27 Jun 2018

Rome wasn鈥檛 built in a day, but from 165-180 CE, up to 2,000 of its citizens were killed per day....

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