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In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incredible 829 kilometres from Texas to Missouri, setting a mind-boggling world record for the longest continuous flash ever captured on Earth

In 2017, a single lightning bolt stretched an incr...

On 29 April 2020, a single stroke of lightning stretched 768 kilometres across Texas, Louisiana, and...
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his handmade microscope, saw thousands of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of the rooms monks slept in, and christened them cells in a folio called Micrographia that Samuel Pepys stayed up all night reading.

In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork und...

In January 1665, Robert Hooke peered through a leather-covered microscope at a shaving of cork, saw ...
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no ventilation to isolate one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride, and the notebooks she kept during those years are still so radioactive they are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque nationale.

Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly fo...

For nearly four years in a leaky Paris shed, Marie and Pierre Curie boiled down eight tonnes of pitc...
Two Asian mantis species just got Europe’s harshest invasive label — and the reason involves cannibalized native males, vanishing pollinators, and a warming climate quietly opening the door north

Two Asian mantis species just got Europe’s harshes...

Two large Asian praying mantis species have established breeding populations across parts of Europe....
A Parkinson’s-linked protein can spread from cell to cell, and Yale researchers found the two-protein complex that appears to help it get inside neurons and trigger damage

A Parkinson’s-linked protein can spread from cell ...

A protein associated with Parkinson’s disease can move from one brain cell to another. Yale research...
Every year, a single bristlecone pine named Methuselah in California’s White Mountains adds another ring to a trunk that has been growing since roughly 2833 BC, meaning the tree was already 300 years old when construction began on the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Every year, a single bristlecone pine named Methus...

High in California's White Mountains, a Great Basin bristlecone pine called Methuselah has been layi...
The human bloodstream now carries an average of 1.6 micrograms of plastic per milliliter, and the polymers showing up most often are the same ones used in single-use bottles and food packaging

The human bloodstream now carries an average of 1....

A 2022 Dutch study first quantified plastic in human blood at 1.6 micrograms per milliliter. Follow-...
Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive because they are rich in potassium, and the dose is so measurable that scientists half-jokingly use the ‘banana equivalent dose’ to explain how small everyday radiation exposures really are

Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive because...

Every banana contains potassium-40, a radioactive isotope with a 1.25-billion-year half-life. Health...
Columbia researchers combed through 9,000 patient records and found a link between the most prescribed antidepressants and faster-failing heart valves — but only in people whose valves were already breaking down

Columbia researchers combed through 9,000 patient ...

A chemical messenger best known for shaping mood may also help decide when a diseased heart valve fa...
The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 to 5 days, and the stem cells at the base of each intestinal crypt divide faster than almost any other tissue in the body

The human gut replaces its entire lining every 4 t...

The human gut lining rebuilds itself every four to five days, driven by Lgr5-positive stem cells at ...
In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher started collecting pus-soaked bandages from a nearby surgical clinic, dissolved the white blood cells, and isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from their nuclei that he called nuclein — the molecule the world would spend the next 75 years failing to recognise as DNA.

In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Mie...

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The Roman Pantheon’s unreinforced concrete dome has stood for nearly 1,900 years and remains the largest of its kind on Earth, partly because its builders mixed in lighter volcanic rock near the top and left a 27-foot hole open at its center.

The Roman Pantheon’s unreinforced concrete dome ha...

Hadrian's builders finished the Pantheon's 142-foot concrete dome around 128 CE, using progressively...
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...

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