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What is the Greenhouse Effect?

21 Feb 2017

The greenhouse effect is caused by gases in the atmosphere that let sunlight through, but prevent some of the heat it generates from being re-emitted, acting as a blanket around the earth. If we...

Polar bears can run up to 40 km per hour!

20 Feb 2017

Polar bears can run as fast as聽40 kilometers per hour鈥攂ut only for short distances. Younger, leaner bears are the best runners and are able to聽cover two kilometers without stopping. Older and...

Welch's Grape Juice

20 Feb 2017

Woodrow Wilson鈥檚 secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan, was ridiculed in 1913 for serving Welch鈥檚 grape juice instead of wine at a dinner honoring the British ambassador. This proved to be...

Are babies born by C-section more at risk than those born vaginally?

20 Feb 2017

Babies who are delivered by C-section don鈥檛 go through the birth canal, and as a result they don鈥檛 get the beneficial microbes that babies born via the birth canal receive. This might help explain...

Do they really pump oxygen into Vegas casinos?

20 Feb 2017

I鈥檓 sure you鈥檝e heard the myth that oxygen is pumped into casinos to give people more energy and keep them awake. This is, in fact, the enduring Vegas myth of all time. There鈥檚 no doubt that the...

Twins with the same genes can have different traits

20 Feb 2017

Even though identical (monozygotic)聽twins may have the exact same genetic make-up, it is possible that they can have different features聽from one another. This is thanks to differences in the womb ...

"Chaotic seabirds" influenced Alfred Hitchcock

20 Feb 2017

In August 1961, in Capitola and Santa Cruz, California there was an invasion of what people described as 鈥渃haotic seabirds.鈥 These birds were believed to be under the influence of domoic acid, a...

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