Drink a mouthful of liquid mercury and almost all of it comes straight back out. In its liquid form, mercury is insoluble, meaning it cannot break down any further. As...
Category - Body
Your scalp is producing oil right now, and it is doing that for a reason. The substance is called sebum, and its job is to protect and moisturize your hair. It is not...
Rabies is one of the most frightening diseases known to medicine. It can begin with something that seems almost harmless, such as a small bite or scratch from an...
Imagine this experiment. From this moment on, every drink you touch is coffee. No water. No juice. Nothing else. Just cup after cup of black gold for a full 24 hours...
This substance may look like a liquid or gas, but instead, it’s a solid. This is aerogel, the world’s lightest solid. This incredibly rare substance has been...
Fancy yourself like Batman? Or not. But what if, like Bruce Wayne, you spent the entire night upside down? Is it possible? What would happen to your body? What is the...
Some of us like a good scratch. And some of us like to pick our noses. Why do we we even have these things? How would our grip be affected by them? And how not having...
Do you remember reading the Berenstein Bears books when you were a kid? Or perhaps you watched that 90s genie movie starring the actor Sinbad? Well, I hate to break it...
Nature has many lethal predators that would love to eat you. Most of these are animals. But what about plants? Well, there’s one plant that thrives in boggy areas...
