Is Cereal a Soup? Settling the Internet’s Strangest Breakfast Debate
Pour cornflakes into a bowl. Add cold milk. Pick up a spoon. You have made breakfast — unless, according to one of the intern...
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Can It Rain Frogs? The Strange Science of Animals Falling From the Sky
Imagine stepping outside after a thunderstorm and discovering the road covered in frogs. Some are hopping. Others are lying i...
Why Do We Yawn When Someone Else Yawns?
You see someone stretch their jaw, squeeze their eyes shut and take a long, involuntary breath. A few seconds later, your own mouth opens. Sometimes you do not even need...
Do Cows Have Best Friends? What Science Says About Bovine Friendship
Watch a herd of cows for long enough and the group begins to look less anonymous. Certain animals repeatedly graze near one another, rest side by side or seek each other...
Why Is 42 the Answer to Everything?
Ask the meaning of life in the right corner of the internet and there is a good chance someone will answer with a number: 42. It has become one of popular culture’s most...
Can Fish Drown? The Strange Truth About Breathing Underwater
A fish can be surrounded by water and still run out of oxygen. That sounds like a contradiction only because we tend to think of water itself as the thing fish breathe. I...