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🧪 Mendeleev left deliberate holes in the periodic table, then predicted what should fill them. 😂
Future chemists started finding the missing occupants.
How?
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#StayCurious #ThrowbackThursday #Mendeleev #PeriodicTable #Chemistry
Future chemists started finding the missing occupants.
How?
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#StayCurious #ThrowbackThursday #Mendeleev #PeriodicTable #Chemistry
Chemist Leaves Holes in Periodic Table, Insists Elements Will Turn Up Later!
Mendeleev predicts missing members of the periodic table decades before atomic structure is understood. Future discoveries of gallium, scandium, and germanium provide an inconvenient amount of evidenc...
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October 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
🧪 Mendeleev left deliberate holes in the periodic table, then predicted what should fill them. 😂
Future chemists started finding the missing occupants.
How?
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#StayCurious #ThrowbackThursday #Mendeleev #PeriodicTable #Chemistry
Future chemists started finding the missing occupants.
How?
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#StayCurious #ThrowbackThursday #Mendeleev #PeriodicTable #Chemistry
🔥 A microbe thriving in extreme heat is not new.
A EUKARYOTE growing and dividing at 145°F absolutely is. 😳
How does a complex cell keep its machinery working at that temperature?
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#StayCurious #Amoeba #Extremophiles #CellBiology #Microbiology
A EUKARYOTE growing and dividing at 145°F absolutely is. 😳
How does a complex cell keep its machinery working at that temperature?
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#StayCurious #Amoeba #Extremophiles #CellBiology #Microbiology
Fire Amoeba Breaks Heat Record for Complex Life!
New species grows at 145°F and survives even hotter conditions by shutting down into a protective state. Scientists already knew microbes could thrive in hot springs, but this one is a more complex eu...
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October 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
🔥 A microbe thriving in extreme heat is not new.
A EUKARYOTE growing and dividing at 145°F absolutely is. 😳
How does a complex cell keep its machinery working at that temperature?
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#StayCurious #Amoeba #Extremophiles #CellBiology #Microbiology
A EUKARYOTE growing and dividing at 145°F absolutely is. 😳
How does a complex cell keep its machinery working at that temperature?
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#StayCurious #Amoeba #Extremophiles #CellBiology #Microbiology
🐦 Thousands of hidden snacks. Tiny brain. Somehow the chickadee keeps enough locations straight to make caching work.
Researchers looked inside the memory system and found something even stranger.
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#StayCurious #Chickadees #AnimalBehavior #Neuroscience
Researchers looked inside the memory system and found something even stranger.
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#StayCurious #Chickadees #AnimalBehavior #Neuroscience
Chickadee’s Tiny Brain Exposed Running Massive Seed Database!
Tiny backyard bird exposed operating a food-storage system humans could not manage with a spreadsheet. Researchers discover the chickadee not only remembers the locations, but has specialized brain ma...
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October 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
🐦 Thousands of hidden snacks. Tiny brain. Somehow the chickadee keeps enough locations straight to make caching work.
Researchers looked inside the memory system and found something even stranger.
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#StayCurious #Chickadees #AnimalBehavior #Neuroscience
Researchers looked inside the memory system and found something even stranger.
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#StayCurious #Chickadees #AnimalBehavior #Neuroscience
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October 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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🩸 Your veins may look blue. Your blood is not.
So where does the blue appearance come from, and why do anatomy diagrams keep helping the myth along? 👀
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#StayCurious #Anatomy #Blood #Circulation
So where does the blue appearance come from, and why do anatomy diagrams keep helping the myth along? 👀
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#StayCurious #Anatomy #Blood #Circulation
Blue Veins Exposed! Blood Inside Remains Red.
Optics blamed for generations of anatomical misinformation. Skin, light, and perception conspire to give veins a misleading color. Even cyanosis fails to produce actual blue blood.
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October 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
🩸 Your veins may look blue. Your blood is not.
So where does the blue appearance come from, and why do anatomy diagrams keep helping the myth along? 👀
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#StayCurious #Anatomy #Blood #Circulation
So where does the blue appearance come from, and why do anatomy diagrams keep helping the myth along? 👀
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#StayCurious #Anatomy #Blood #Circulation
🦞 Crawzilla looked huge.
Then researchers found NINE bigger crayfish. 😂
The record hunt ended with a stranger question: why do giant crayfish seem to hit a similar size ceiling?
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#StayCurious #Crayfish #Invertebrates #Biology
Then researchers found NINE bigger crayfish. 😂
The record hunt ended with a stranger question: why do giant crayfish seem to hit a similar size ceiling?
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#StayCurious #Crayfish #Invertebrates #Biology
Crawzilla Demoralized by Bigger Fish!
One giant crayfish triggers a continent-wide search for the true heavyweight champion. Nine bigger crayfish later, researchers stumble onto a biological mystery.
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October 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🦞 Crawzilla looked huge.
Then researchers found NINE bigger crayfish. 😂
The record hunt ended with a stranger question: why do giant crayfish seem to hit a similar size ceiling?
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#StayCurious #Crayfish #Invertebrates #Biology
Then researchers found NINE bigger crayfish. 😂
The record hunt ended with a stranger question: why do giant crayfish seem to hit a similar size ceiling?
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#StayCurious #Crayfish #Invertebrates #Biology
🦠 Virus arrives with instructions. Cell ends up manufacturing more viruses. Rude. 😂
What does the invader bring, and what does it steal from the host?
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#StayCurious #Viruses #ViralReplication #Microbiology
What does the invader bring, and what does it steal from the host?
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#StayCurious #Viruses #ViralReplication #Microbiology
October 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🦠 Virus arrives with instructions. Cell ends up manufacturing more viruses. Rude. 😂
What does the invader bring, and what does it steal from the host?
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#StayCurious #Viruses #ViralReplication #Microbiology
What does the invader bring, and what does it steal from the host?
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#StayCurious #Viruses #ViralReplication #Microbiology
Storms get names. Nigel gets offended.
Who started this?
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#StayCurious #Weather
Who started this?
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#StayCurious #Weather
Storms Get Names! Destruction Suddenly Feels Personal.
Meteorologists humanize hurricanes, and wives, girlfriends, and weather systems become entangled in naming history. Public discovers severe weather is more memorable when it sounds like a neighbor.
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October 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Storms get names. Nigel gets offended.
Who started this?
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#StayCurious #Weather
Who started this?
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#StayCurious #Weather
🕷️ Meet Sylvie, the newest recurring Science Scandal character.
She’s a native yellow garden spider wrongly accused of being a Joro. 😂
What actually separates the lookalikes?
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#StayCurious #Spiders #SpiderID #OrbWeavers
She’s a native yellow garden spider wrongly accused of being a Joro. 😂
What actually separates the lookalikes?
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#StayCurious #Spiders #SpiderID #OrbWeavers
September 30, 2026 at 1:28 PM
🕷️ Meet Sylvie, the newest recurring Science Scandal character.
She’s a native yellow garden spider wrongly accused of being a Joro. 😂
What actually separates the lookalikes?
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#StayCurious #Spiders #SpiderID #OrbWeavers
She’s a native yellow garden spider wrongly accused of being a Joro. 😂
What actually separates the lookalikes?
sciencescandal.com/scandals/nat...
#StayCurious #Spiders #SpiderID #OrbWeavers
🐱 A “house cat” in Bolivia failed the DNA test spectacularly. 😂
The genomic surprise also exposed a much messier wild-cat family tree. Why does that matter for conservation?
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#StayCurious #Genomics #Taxonomy #WildCats
The genomic surprise also exposed a much messier wild-cat family tree. Why does that matter for conservation?
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#StayCurious #Genomics #Taxonomy #WildCats
September 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🐱 A “house cat” in Bolivia failed the DNA test spectacularly. 😂
The genomic surprise also exposed a much messier wild-cat family tree. Why does that matter for conservation?
sciencescandal.com/scandals/hou...
#StayCurious #Genomics #Taxonomy #WildCats
The genomic surprise also exposed a much messier wild-cat family tree. Why does that matter for conservation?
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#StayCurious #Genomics #Taxonomy #WildCats
📬 Six weird science stories. One weekly email.
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September 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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🍓 Strawberries: rejected.
🍅 Tomatoes: berries.
🍌 Bananas: berries.
Botany has ruined the word “berry.” 😂
So what actually qualifies?
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#StayCurious #ScienceScandal #Botany #Berries #PlantScience
🍅 Tomatoes: berries.
🍌 Bananas: berries.
Botany has ruined the word “berry.” 😂
So what actually qualifies?
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#StayCurious #ScienceScandal #Botany #Berries #PlantScience
September 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
🍓 Strawberries: rejected.
🍅 Tomatoes: berries.
🍌 Bananas: berries.
Botany has ruined the word “berry.” 😂
So what actually qualifies?
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#StayCurious #ScienceScandal #Botany #Berries #PlantScience
🍅 Tomatoes: berries.
🍌 Bananas: berries.
Botany has ruined the word “berry.” 😂
So what actually qualifies?
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#StayCurious #ScienceScandal #Botany #Berries #PlantScience
🧠 Study: distinct early brain-development lineages.
Headlines: TWO BRAINS FUSED TOGETHER! 🤦♀️
What did the researchers actually find?
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#StayCurious #Neuroscience #Embryology #ScienceCommunication
Headlines: TWO BRAINS FUSED TOGETHER! 🤦♀️
What did the researchers actually find?
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#StayCurious #Neuroscience #Embryology #ScienceCommunication
September 26, 2026 at 3:54 PM
🧠 Study: distinct early brain-development lineages.
Headlines: TWO BRAINS FUSED TOGETHER! 🤦♀️
What did the researchers actually find?
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#StayCurious #Neuroscience #Embryology #ScienceCommunication
Headlines: TWO BRAINS FUSED TOGETHER! 🤦♀️
What did the researchers actually find?
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#StayCurious #Neuroscience #Embryology #ScienceCommunication
🐜 One ant finds sugar. Minutes later: an interstate.
How does one scout recruit a whole colony so fast?
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#Ants #AnimalBehavior
How does one scout recruit a whole colony so fast?
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#Ants #AnimalBehavior
September 25, 2026 at 1:41 PM
🐜 One ant finds sugar. Minutes later: an interstate.
How does one scout recruit a whole colony so fast?
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#Ants #AnimalBehavior
How does one scout recruit a whole colony so fast?
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#Ants #AnimalBehavior
🗞️ 1674: water is crowded with “wee animalcules.” What did Leeuwenhoek find?
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#Microscopy
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#Microscopy
September 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
🗞️ 1674: water is crowded with “wee animalcules.” What did Leeuwenhoek find?
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#Microscopy
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#Microscopy
🌕 No dark side of the Moon?
Why do we keep seeing the same face, and where is permanent darkness?
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#Moon #Space
Why do we keep seeing the same face, and where is permanent darkness?
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#Moon #Space
September 23, 2026 at 1:06 PM
🌕 No dark side of the Moon?
Why do we keep seeing the same face, and where is permanent darkness?
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#Moon #Space
Why do we keep seeing the same face, and where is permanent darkness?
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#Moon #Space
🍊 Cats make vitamin C. We can't. Guinea pigs can't. Why? 👀
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#Genetics #Evolution #StayCurious
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#Genetics #Evolution #StayCurious
September 22, 2026 at 1:24 PM
🍊 Cats make vitamin C. We can't. Guinea pigs can't. Why? 👀
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#Genetics #Evolution #StayCurious
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#Genetics #Evolution #StayCurious
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September 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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💩🍄 Tiny dung fungus. High-speed spore cannon. How does something under 1 cm pull that off?
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September 20, 2026 at 3:21 PM
💩🍄 Tiny dung fungus. High-speed spore cannon. How does something under 1 cm pull that off?
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🐈 How much of a box has to exist before a cat decides it counts? Scientists tested that. 👀
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September 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
🐈 How much of a box has to exist before a cat decides it counts? Scientists tested that. 👀
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🥜🍓🍌 Produce aisle exposed: almost nothing is what you think.
Botany objects. See which labels survive. 👀
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Botany objects. See which labels survive. 👀
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September 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
🥜🍓🍌 Produce aisle exposed: almost nothing is what you think.
Botany objects. See which labels survive. 👀
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Botany objects. See which labels survive. 👀
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🗞️ Throwback Thursday!
Shoe stores once used real X-ray fluoroscopes to show customers their bones inside new shoes. The physics worked. The radiation exposure was real too. 👠☢️
🧬 Snoop: “Fire up the newspaper ads!”
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Shoe stores once used real X-ray fluoroscopes to show customers their bones inside new shoes. The physics worked. The radiation exposure was real too. 👠☢️
🧬 Snoop: “Fire up the newspaper ads!”
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September 17, 2026 at 1:50 PM
🗞️ Throwback Thursday!
Shoe stores once used real X-ray fluoroscopes to show customers their bones inside new shoes. The physics worked. The radiation exposure was real too. 👠☢️
🧬 Snoop: “Fire up the newspaper ads!”
sciencescandal.com/scandals/sho...
Shoe stores once used real X-ray fluoroscopes to show customers their bones inside new shoes. The physics worked. The radiation exposure was real too. 👠☢️
🧬 Snoop: “Fire up the newspaper ads!”
sciencescandal.com/scandals/sho...
😈✨ Fireflies glow using luciferin + luciferase.
The names sound sinister, but “Lucifer” originally meant light-bearer/light-bringer.
🧬 Fireflies insist this is chemistry, not a summoning ritual.
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The names sound sinister, but “Lucifer” originally meant light-bearer/light-bringer.
🧬 Fireflies insist this is chemistry, not a summoning ritual.
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September 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
😈✨ Fireflies glow using luciferin + luciferase.
The names sound sinister, but “Lucifer” originally meant light-bearer/light-bringer.
🧬 Fireflies insist this is chemistry, not a summoning ritual.
sciencescandal.com/scandals/fir...
The names sound sinister, but “Lucifer” originally meant light-bearer/light-bringer.
🧬 Fireflies insist this is chemistry, not a summoning ritual.
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Billions of people are expiring right now.
Relax. In anatomy & physiology, expiration means breathing out, while inspiration means breathing in.
🧬 This gasp is technically inspirational.
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Relax. In anatomy & physiology, expiration means breathing out, while inspiration means breathing in.
🧬 This gasp is technically inspirational.
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September 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Billions of people are expiring right now.
Relax. In anatomy & physiology, expiration means breathing out, while inspiration means breathing in.
🧬 This gasp is technically inspirational.
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Relax. In anatomy & physiology, expiration means breathing out, while inspiration means breathing in.
🧬 This gasp is technically inspirational.
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September 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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