Many people experience slight dizziness when they stand up suddenly from a resting position. That brief wave of lightheadedness, the “head rush,” or the momentary sense that the room is tilting when you rise too fast from a chair or…
We have all been there: the red nose, uncontrollable cough, and the most irritating mucus from a runny nose. Mucus has many names. Snot or the sticky goo that comes out of your nose when you have a common cold.…
Have you ever noticed on certain seasons there are certain types of birds are missing? It’s because those birds are migratory birds and are on a journey. So, what is migration? Well, simply put, migration is the large-scale, long-distance movement…
How much sleep is necessary for a healthy lifestyle? Nowadays, it’s common for people to avoid sleep to make time for recreational activities. People doomscroll, watch web series past 12 AM, 2 AM, sometimes all the way to the morning…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…