Why is the blue whale so big?
Intro What is a blue whale? The blue whale is the biggest animal to ever exist on this planet. It is larger than even the biggest dinosaurs known from the fossil record. It weighs roughly 25 times as much as […]
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Do humans really use only 10% of their brains?
September 18, 2026
I believe you have heard about how humans only use 10% of their whole brain, not tapping the remaining 90% of their potential throughout their whole life. This quote really does sound too good to be true, and I must say this isn’t. This is a total myth and one of the biggest scientific myths
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What is Radiation?
September 17, 2026
Intro When we think about radiation, images of the Second World War come to mind. The destruction left behind by nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and its effects even years later. After all, nuclear weapons produce enormous amounts of radiation along with heat, blast, and radioactive fallout. But does radiation really do all of
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Why does nuclear radiation affect DNA?
September 14, 2026
Intro Whenever people think about nuclear radiation, images of Chornobyl, mutated creatures, and superheroes made from radioactive accidents come to mind. But it’s not true in real life. Nuclear radiation is quite harmful to the human body, to the point of being life-threatening. But how does Nuclear radiation really affects the human body, “But how
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Why is the blue whale so big?
September 7, 2026
Intro What is a blue whale? The blue whale is the biggest animal to ever exist on this planet. It is larger than even the biggest dinosaurs known from the fossil record. It weighs roughly 25 times as much as the largest living land animal, the elephant. Even the fin whale, the second-largest animal on
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Why does your heart beat faster when you get scared?
August 22, 2026
Intro Has this ever happened to you when you get scared: your heart starts beating faster, you get a sudden rush of energy in your muscles and a feeling of butterflies in your stomach? So why does it happen? It’s a natural response shaped by millions of years of evolution. It is one of the
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What is the Bloop?
August 17, 2026
Intro The Bloop was a mysterious sound so powerful that it travelled through the depths of the ocean and was detected by hydrophones thousands of miles apart. Its strange nature captured people’s imagination and gave rise to one of the most famous mythical explanations for an unexplained sound: a gigantic creature lurking beneath the sea.
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What is Sleep Paralysis?
August 11, 2026
Intro Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, fully aware of your surroundings but unable to move an inch? You may even feel as though someone—or something—is in the room with you. Some people see a dark figure, hear strange sounds, or feel a heavy presence pressing down on their chest.
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Why we can’t tickle ourselves
August 8, 2026
Introduction Have you ever been tickled mercilessly by someone? Tickling is a really fun way to make people laugh, so intense that it can be painful and hard to breathe for the people who are extra ticklish. It is a very common thing for people to do to each other: parents to their kids, siblings
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Why is the sky blue?
August 4, 2026
Intro At some point in their life many people have looked at the sky and asked why the sky is clear blue. Turns out many people around the world have wondered the same, and a lot of them were scientists who wanted to know the answer to this question. After years of observation and research,
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