Parasites and pathogens are pretty terrifying things. Immune systems serve to mount a defense against these elusive little creatures. This is, in…
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Sometimes, nature has had enough of us killing ourselves and has just intervened. Throughout history, armies and navies have met in combat,…
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Forensic science has evolved by leaps and bounds in the past couple of centuries. What began as hearsay and finger-pointing has evolved…
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Dead people and skeletons are often the last thing we expect at tourist attractions—at least most of the time. While some places…
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Humans are the only Homos left standing – that is there are no other representatives of the Genus Homo left alive. Some…
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Biggest, smallest, oldest, tallest. Only relatively recently have we begun reliably recording the limits of what human beings can be, do or…
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Known as the human form of mad cow disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is an incredibly rare yet terrifying illness. Scientists currently…
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They’re creepy. They’re crawly. They’re literally everywhere we go, whether we notice them or not. They’re also the inspiration for innovation! What?…
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In the last 10 years, developments in DNA analysis have completely revolutionized how we see the human past. Working with archaeologists, anthropologists,…
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Religion is a funny thing. Because few gods, nowadays at least, actually appear to us in our daily lives, it can be…