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Cement is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions, which is a problem if we want to build more cities.

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Perfumes contain many very strange ingredients, but one of the strangest is definitely ambergris.

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Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo is home to a legendary lightning storm that has been going on for over 500 years.

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Thanks to the ASCEND project for partnering with us on this video! Every species on Earth has a fingerprint - whether or not they have fingers at all.

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Most trees reach for the sun – but not the weeping willow. Why?

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

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Learn more at naturecanada.ca/lostinthewoods By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount

Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics.

In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T.

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

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It’s common to call creepy crawlies bugs, but because entomologists refer to a specific class of insects as bugs, it’s wrong to call other things bugs - right?