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A tiny change in a molecule’s geometry completely changes its effects on the human body.

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Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out.

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You've probably heard that leaves of deciduous trees change color in autumn because they lose their green chlorophyll molecules, allowing the underlying yellow and orange pigments to shine through.

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Humans have created a lot of barriers in the animal world, here are some innovative solutions for helping the chicken (or monkey, or crab, or deer...) cross the road.

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Is there a difference between the two terms? As it turns out, grandma was right!

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There have supposedly been five “mass extinctions” in Earth’s history, but the real story is more complex than that.

Because of space physics, one faraway asteroid is likely the progenitor of almost a third of all the meteorites on Earth.

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The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

Get your first KiwiCo box free by going to kiwico.com/minuteearth Occasionally, internal or external factors change, allowing certain animals to become giant versions of themselves.

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