An 8-year-old Boy Becomes The Youngest Person To Ascend El Capitan

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For hikers and mountaineers, El Capitan, or El Cap as it’s better known, is widely considered one of the most brutal climbs in the world. It’s also the world’s largest granite monolith (a large single upright block of stone), rising 3,600 feet on the north side of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park. According to […]

What Happens In A Butterfly’s Chrysalis?

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How in the world do those little caterpillars turn into a beautiful butterfly? Exactly what happens in the chrysalis? A butterfly starts as a little egg. Then that egg hatches to be a caterpillar. Then all that caterpillar does is eat and eat and eat for days. Once that caterpillar has eaten and grown enough, […]

Rats Wearing Backpacks Are Trained To Rescue Earthquake Survivors

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Natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods occur yearly around the globe. And sadly, many people are gravely affected, and some lose their lives due to these incredibly destructive disasters.  For earthquakes, it’s a painstaking task to perform search and rescue operations for survivors in collapsed structures. But a group of scientists already devised an […]

What If People Lived in Floating Cities?

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Throughout history, humans have been confined to landmasses when establishing permanent settlements. But what if that’s all about to change? What if humans took to the sea, not only to explore it, but to- settle it? If the Seasteading Institute accomplishes its goal of creating the first permanent cities at sea, your future could involve living […]

Scientists Discover Wax Worm: The Plastic-Eating Larva

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There’s no denying that plastic has been useful and convenient to us, and we’re surrounded by it. It’s in the shopping bags we use for grocery items, the food packaging we discard, and plastic bottles or straws we drink from. However, this innovation came with a massive ecological cost. As a result, the rapid production […]

Saturn’s Rings Could Be From The Remains Of A Destroyed Moon Named Chrysalis

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Saturn is a gas giant or a colossal planet mainly composed of helium (He) and hydrogen (H2). It’s the sixth planet from our Sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system.  Among the planets in our solar system, Saturn is considered the most beautiful. This is because of its thousands of unique, glorious rings […]

Halloween Facts!

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Hello! Today I’ve got some really cool Halloween facts! Fact #1 – Easter HalloweenPeople in Finland celebrate Easter the way people celebrate Halloween in America! Kids go to houses and ask for candy! Fact #2 – Dancing for TreatsEarly Trick-or-Treaters had to dance for candy. It is the early European practice of “muming.” This is where […]