Why zebras were never domesticated
There's a reason why humans don't ride zebras.
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What is gympie-gympie: the poisonous plant whose painful sting can last for years and drive people to suicide
Its leaves pack one of the most painful stings in the world. There is no antidote.
How a deaf Beethoven discovered bone conduction by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth
Beethoven wrote dozens of symphonies and songs while deaf. But he had some help from a nifty trick.
No green thumb required: Open-source robots can now grow a small farm for you
The only thing cooler than a smart, useful robot is a smart, useful, open-source robot.
Ukraine seizes spirit made from apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear site
The company hopes to get it soon on the UK market.
How Tibbles the cat possibly caused an entire species to go extinct
A cautionary tale we've failed to heed more than a century later.
Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot
Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.
The world’s donkeys are threatened by demand for Chinese traditional medicine
Donkeys are undergoing their worst crisis ever.
Chernobyl in photos — what does the exclusion area look like 35 years after the disaster?
Some of our favorite photos from the ghost town Pripyat and the nuclear plant exclusion zone.
Google Earth’s new feature: a timelapse of the entire planet
It's one of the most stunning features we've seen online.
Japanese metallic tail can help keep the elderly upright
It's a weird evolutionary thing that we'd build robotic tails.
Watch a 3D printer produce an entire boat
0 metal, 100% boat.
Posting edited photos on social media could hurt your self-esteem
Some college students simply find it unimaginable to post unedited photos on Instagram "because there is this anxiety."
Puppy paws on the walls: ancient house featured unusual decorations
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Sardis found a 1,500 year-old-house in fantastic shape. Not only is the house excellently ...
The invisible border that keeps vultures in Spain, not Portugal
"The Spanish-Portuguese border acts as a quasi-impermeable barrier", researchers note.
The longest known exposure photograph ever was captured using a beer can
It has an exposure time of 8 years.
How to think like a genius with Richard Feynman
It's a combination of thinking like a child and always keeping a catalog of problems that require your attention.
This minimalistic chart shows how hot 2020 and the past few years have really been
It's easy to forget, in the current situation, that the world is still heating up severely. If the COVID-19 pandemic ...
This trippy timelapse of mushroom fruiting is the best thing you’ll see today
What mushrooms are doing when humans aren't looking.
120-year-old condom found in Japan — and the company that made it still makes condoms
Of course, the company's current products look quite different.