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10 Weird Scientific Terms

Science is hard sometimes, but do you know what’s even harder sometimes? Naming things. Ever tried writing some story about some person and then hit an absolute brick wall when you realized you had to […]

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What Is a Litmus Test?

When doing a simple gauge of how something is, you may have heard someone say they’re going to “take a litmus test” before. You might see this for politicians, where people will call a pulse-check […]

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Why Are Sunsets a Different Color?

At some point in your life you’ve probably had the opportunity to appreciate a sunset (or sunrise!). If you haven’t in person, you’ve probably seen pictures. Well, given that the thumbnail is a picture you […]

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How Do You Make a New Element?

You’ve seen the periodic table before–probably. To the layperson, it might seem like a very fundamental and unchanging thing; where changing the periodic table is just a changing of our understanding of the world around […]