Amazingly, some people can manufacture alcohol inside their body from the food they eat – carbohydrates, to be specific. Some do it so well, they can raise their blood alcohol level to eight times the legal driving limit!
Electricity and agriculture is not an ‘either/or situation’, argues Dr Karl.
In November 2023, SpaceX launched its second Starship rocket test flight. This was the heaviest, tallest and most powerful rocket ever built and – not unexpectedly – it didn’t work.
After spreading through most of Earth’s honeybee populations, the parasite known as the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor) recently got a foothold in Australia and has begun devastating our own bees.
Avalanches are terrifying things: they career down snow-covered mountains, smashing everything in their paths.
We know of one (that’s correct, only one!) person able to smell Parkinson’s disease, before the symptoms became visible some 14 years later.
Proteins found in ancient Neanderthal DNA might help fight modern antibiotic resistance.
On Reddit, I came across the following statement: “Every year on 8 July at about 11.15 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), approximately 99.164 per cent of the world’s population is between dawn and dusk.” Amazingly, it turns out to be only 6 per cent wrong!
There seems to be strength – and intelligence – in numbers.
The Joni Mitchell song “Woodstock” has the following, surprisingly accurate, lines: “We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon”.