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

Humans have invented many ways to preserve food to eat later or far from where it was harvested.

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The earth has a lot of warm places: forest fires, lava floes, iron foundries, the inside of your toaster oven, nuclear reactors, and so forth.

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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.

Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.

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

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

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