A few metres can be worth a couple of degrees and three weeks. Here are fourteen.
1. A Wall Facing the Sun Is a Storage Heater
Masonry absorbs heat through…
Busier at two in the morning than at two in the afternoon. Here are fifteen.
1. Foxes Are Not Hunting Your Bins by Accident
Urban foxes hold territories they know…
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Most insects live fast. A mayfly is famous for having a day. Periodical cicadas run the opposite strategy to an extreme that has no real parallel: nearly two decades…
A Turtle’s Shell Is Its Own Ribcage and Spine Fused Into a Box, Which Is Why It Cannot Ever Leave It
Almost every popular depiction of a turtle gets this wrong in the same way, treating the shell as a portable house. The reality is stranger, because building a box out…
One foot, one shell it cannot leave, and thousands of teeth. Here are fifteen.
1. It Moves by Sending a Wave Along One Foot
Bands of muscle contract in sequence…
Thunder is usually described as the noise lightning makes, which suggests the bolt itself is loud in the way a bell or an engine is loud. It is not. Lightning…