Ice is the only common solid that behaves this way. Glass is smooth and you do not slide on it. Polished stone is smooth and you do not slide on…
The honeycomb is probably the most cited example of mathematics in nature. Rows of near-identical hexagonal cells, walls meeting at consistent angles, packed with no wasted space — and produced…
Ask why the sky is blue and you will get one of three answers. That it reflects the sea. That the atmosphere is somehow blue in the way tinted glass…
When something arrives from elsewhere, people tend to name it after wherever it came through rather than wherever it came from. Multiply that by a few centuries of trade and…
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The curse of Tutankhamun is one of the most durable stories in popular history. Nearly everyone knows the shape of it: archaeologists disturbed a pharaoh's rest, and one after…
Try it. Run your fingers along your own ribs, or the sole of your own foot, using exactly the motion that would reduce you to helpless laughter if somebody else…