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Magnets and magnetism are, to the unenlightened, akin to magic.  Give a pair of magnets to a nursery [...]

The Dark Ages were marked, if anything, by a lack of scientific inquiry and related societal advancement.   [...]

It costs 1.62 cents to mint and distribute penny. Really. And this isn’t anything new. Since 2006, [...]

Saddam Hussein, by many accounts, was a megalomaniac.  As a testament to his own greatness, Hussein erected [...]

The grey nurse shark, pictured above, survives on a diet of fish, rays, shellfish, and — it’s a [...]

Stonehenge, famously built roughly 4500 years ago, is perhaps a former temple of Bronze Age inhabitants of [...]

Jewish dietary law — kashrut, or, keeping kosher — prohibit the mixing of milk and meat.   That [...]

Two fetuses, one womb. Twins?  Usually — but not if they were conceived at different times. Possible? [...]

In an increasingly digital and mobile world, we’ve come more and more reliant on batteries to power our [...]