A bottle of champagne is under roughly five to six atmospheres of pressure. That is comparable to the pressure at a depth of around 50 metres of water, and about…
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…
Sourdough occupies an unusual place in food culture. It is simultaneously the oldest form of leavened bread, a craft with real skill involved, and a subject about which an extraordinary…
The Dead Sea Is Not a Sea, and Its Water Is So Dense With Salt That a Human Body Cannot Sink Into It
The Dead Sea produces one of the most recognisable travel photographs there is: a person lying on their back on the surface of the water, reading a newspaper, entirely unsupported.…
There is a reasonable assumption most people make about the Hollywood sign: that it was put up to mark Hollywood, by somebody who wanted to celebrate the film industry, as…
Fingerprints feel like a distinctly primate thing, and mostly they are. Humans have them, as do chimpanzees, orangutans and other primates, which makes sense given how recently we shared an…