An egg looks like a crazy jellyfish underwater
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< Humans can't taste food without saliva. Chemoreceptors in the taste buds of your tongue require a liquid medium for the flavors to bind into the receptor molecule
This is what happens when a black hole swallows a star: As the star gets sucked up into the black hole, a huge jet of plasma is burped out, spanning hundreds of light-years. "When the star is ripped apart by the gravitational forces of the black hole, some part of the star's remains falls into the black hole, while the rest is ejected at high speeds," explains Johns Hopkins University researcher, Suvi Gezari.
Humans can only see about 5 percent of the matter in the universe. The rest is made up of invisible matter (called dark matter) and a mysterious form of energy known as dark energy.
Popping your knuckles isn't necessarily bad for you: One researcher popped the knuckles of one hand for 60 years but not the other, and found no discernible difference in the amount of arthritis between the two of them at the end of his experiment. Find out more in this video from Vox:
Einstein's Stolen Brain
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Careful with how long you wear yours... Super-Ambidextrous!!
When Scientists Didn’t Exist...
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At least half of Earth's Oxygen comes from the ocean, not trees. Tiny aquatic plants called phytoplankton live near the surface of the water, drift with the currents, and generally do what plants do - make oxygen as a byproduct of taking in sunlight and carbon dioxide. |