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Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only animal known to do so, forming the flat-sided pellets inside the last stretch of their intestines and stacking them on rocks and logs to mark territory in a way round droppings would simply roll away from.

Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings, the only an...

Wombats are the only animal on Earth known to produce cube-shaped droppings, formed by uneven stiffn...
Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to build and was designed to echo the basalt lava columns that cool into hexagonal pillars across the island, so its concrete facade rises in stepped ridges meant to mimic the very rock the country is made of.

Iceland’s Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to ...

Reykjavík's Hallgrímskirkja church took 41 years to build and was designed by architect Guðjón Samúe...
A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through its gills, severs the blood vessels of its tongue until the organ withers away, and then latches onto the stub to serve as a functioning replacement tongue for the rest of the fish’s life.

A tiny crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a ...

Cymothoa exigua is the only known parasite that anatomically replaces one of its host's organs. It e...
In 1856, an 18-year-old chemistry student named William Perkin was trying to synthesize quinine at home over Easter when a black residue in his flask yielded mauveine, the first commercially successful synthetic organic dye, and helped launch the modern chemical industry

In 1856, an 18-year-old chemistry student named Wi...

In 1856, a teenage chemistry student named William Perkin tried to synthesize the antimalarial drug ...
In 1847, Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis watched maternal deaths fall from 18% to about 2% after ordering doctors to wash their hands — but medicine resisted the evidence, and his life ended in an asylum

In 1847, Hungarian obstetrician Ignaz Semmelweis w...

In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis proved that doctors coming from autopsies were killing new mothers, and th...
The Sun launches roughly a trillion kilograms of charged plasma toward Earth in a coronal mass ejection, and the fastest clouds can cross 150 million kilometres in under 18 hours

The Sun launches roughly a trillion kilograms of c...

A coronal mass ejection carries roughly a billion tonnes of solar plasma across 150 million kilometr...
Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in distinct dialects passed down through generations, and pods that never interbreed can share the same waters while sounding as foreign to each other as speakers of two unrelated human languages.

Killer whales off the Pacific Northwest speak in d...

Off the coast of Washington and British Columbia, resident and transient killer whales share the sam...
The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret — then records showed the data center campus consumed roughly a third of the Oregon city’s supply

The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google...

In 2022, Google sued to keep its water use in The Dalles, Oregon secret. When the numbers finally ca...
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, is one organism made of roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root system across 106 acres, weighs about 6,000 tons, and may have been cloning itself for up to 14,000 years.

Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, is one orga...

In Utah's Fishlake National Forest, a single quaking aspen called Pando spans 106 acres, weighs 6,00...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a mold-contaminated Staphylococcus plate with a clear bacteria-free halo — the chance observation that opened the antibiotic era

In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from...

On September 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from a two-week holiday to find a mold spore had k...
In 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance code helped send America’s Venus probe off course, forcing range safety to destroy an $18.5 million spacecraft in under five minutes

In 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance...

On July 22, 1962, an Atlas-Agena rocket carrying America's first interplanetary probe was destroyed ...
When Sergei Korolev, the chief designer behind Sputnik and Gagarin’s flight, died on the operating table in 1966, the Soviet Union finally released his name to the public — until that moment, the man who had beaten America into space was known only as the Chief Designer.

When Sergei Korolev, the chief designer behind Spu...

Sergei Korolev launched Sputnik, sent Laika into orbit, and put Yuri Gagarin around the Earth — all ...
A single cumulus cloud can carry roughly 500 tons of water, about 100 elephants’ worth, and it stays overhead because its droplets are tiny and the warm air around them keeps rising

A single cumulus cloud can carry roughly 500 tons ...

A typical fair-weather cumulus holds roughly 500 metric tons of water — about 100 elephants' worth —...
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, which means some of the ones cruising the North Atlantic today were already swimming when Isaac Newton was writing the Principia, and almost all of them spend those centuries functionally blind from a parasite anchored to their eyes.

Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, whi...

Greenland sharks are the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth, with some individuals in the North Atla...
Four startup reactors hit criticality by July 4 to beat a Trump deadline — but the milestone that actually matters is the one the press releases quietly skipped

Four startup reactors hit criticality by July 4 to...

Four experimental nuclear reactors have started self-sustaining chain reactions on U.S. soil in a si...
Scientists Program Flat Sheets of Cells to Fold Themselves Into Bowls and Roses

Scientists Program Flat Sheets of Cells to Fold Th...

Fibroblasts do not normally care what shape they make. Put a few million of them on a soft gel in a ...
On the City of Fresno’s laudable waste-handling programs

On the City of Fresno’s laudable waste-handling pr...

In Australia, Surgical Escape Room Puts Nurses to the Test

In Australia, Surgical Escape Room Puts Nurses to ...

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