Urban Birds Fear Women More Than Men, and Here’s Why
Urban birds fear women more than men — scientists have finally figured out why If you’ve ever tried to sneak up on a pigeon or a thrush in a city...
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What Happens If You Eat Too Many Cough Drops
Unfortunately, tasty cough drops can be dangerous You’ve had a cough for three days and you’re sucking on cough drops one after another, wondering — is that too many? Overdosing...
Read more → Omega-3 May Accelerate Memory Loss: Who Is at Risk
Omega-3 supplements may damage your brain — new warning from scientists Omega-3 fatty acids have long been considered something of a universal “brain pill.” Millions of people worldwide take them...
Read more → Deadly Virus Found on Cruise Liner: Who Died and How Are the Rest Surviving?
People found themselves trapped on a cruise liner due to a deadly virus An outbreak of hantavirus, a rare disease carried by rodents, occurred on board the expedition cruise ship...
Read more → Saturn’s moons swap places every 4 years: how is this possible
Saturn’s mystery: two moons swap places every four years Saturn has over a hundred moons, but two of them — Janus and Epimetheus — perform something unprecedented in the Solar...
Read more → Is Oil Made from Dinosaurs? Scientists Never Thought So
It may sound unexpected, but there is no real connection between dinosaurs and oil Were you also told in school that oil was formed from the remains of dinosaurs? The...
Read more → Why Does a Giraffe Have a Black Tongue When It Shouldn’t?
Scientists still cannot agree on why giraffes have a dark tongue Giraffes have an incredibly long tongue, up to 50 centimeters, and it is dark purple, almost black in color....
Read more → 6 Forbidden Mountains You Can’t Climb Even for Money
Uluru, Australia. Since 2019, climbing the sacred rock has been banned. If you’ve ever looked at a mountain and wondered — what’s up there? — these six peaks won’t give...
Read more → Why Tigers Are Older Than Lions and Aren’t Considered Close Relatives
How a tiger differs from a lion beyond appearance. Image source: livescience.com Lions and tigers seem similar: both are huge, both are predators, both belong to the genus Panthera, meaning...
Read more → Were we lied to about poplar fluff? It doesn’t actually cause allergies
Surprisingly, poplar fluff is not an allergen Do you also remember how there used to be noticeably more poplar trees in cities? Those tree-lined avenues along the roads, courtyards in...
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