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The Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday for Super Bowl LIX. However, even the biggest football fans may not know everything about the history of the big game. The Super ...

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The world’s largest water lily with giant floating leaves and fragrant white flowers, blooming only at night. An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator ...

Since the pandemic, drug trials that purposely make people vomit, shiver and ache have become a research area of growing interest. All that’s needed: brave volunteers. Credit...Jon Han Supported ...

Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone? A 2022 US study compared smell to other senses (sight and hearing) and personally prized commodities (including money, a ...

Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science influences ...

The human eye can detect over 10 million different colours and is incredibly sensitive to light, adjusting instantly to different conditions. Every eye has a blind spot where the optic nerve ...

Edith B. Ordway was a turn-of-the-last-century American writer better known in her lifetime for penning guidebooks to etiquette than anything else. In 1915, however, she published a Handbook of ...