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Nuts are almost always a healthy choice for a snack, but be careful with Brazil nuts. They have so much selenium that eating ...

Urine isn't the most pleasant liquid, but it had its uses to the ancient Romans, who used it as a potentially unexpected ...

Scientists looking at old gharial fossils from Egypt took a reexamined one that was missing its nose, like the Sphinx, and ...

Colorful pumpkins abound in autumn, with a bit of genetics and specific breeding accounting for the shapes and sizes of all ...

Scientists found that adding poop char into concrete is not just good for the environment, but makes the concrete 42% more ...

Lightning is one of nature's most brilliant displays and we mostly understand it, but the rare phenomenon of ball lightning ...

A pair of student scientists working in a museum took a second look at a fossil and discovered an entirely new species hiding ...

Scientists studying how humans acclimate to the low pressure, low oxygen environment of Mount Everest were shocked at the ...