But you already know about this, because Fg is what normies call an object’s “weight,” and for a given volume, weight depends only on the density. Now, if you dropped these blocks in a lake, obviously the styrofoam would float and the steel would sink. So clearly it has something to do…
A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope that the…
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a unique mosaic-style board game in the Mayan city of Naachtun, Guatemala, offering fresh insights…
In an effort to monitor our climate more accurately, the…
Amid the 872-day siege of Leningrad in the early 1940s, nine people died protecting a library. This library was not for books, but…
Reindeers may not have noses that glow red in the night, but they do have a marvelous body part that changes color in winter darkness.
In 2013, scientists discovered that reindeer eyes change hues with the seasons, reflecting the color of the Arctic sky.
If you look into the eyes of an Arctic…
At the whole genome level, canines and wolves are clearly separated. However, when the research team constructed phylogenetic trees for each of the 1,582 genes, they found that not a single gene supported the monophyly of dogs. Further examination of the mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome…
For example, researchers at Imperial College were investigating how certain “pirate phages”—these fascinating viruses that hijack other viruses—manage to break into bacteria. Understanding these mechanisms could open up entirely new ways of tackling drug-resistant infections, which is…
