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How Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model Simulates Patterns in Nature.

Do humans have the best hearing on earth?

Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible - how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.

The hottest and coldest temperatures in our universe are rarely witnessed, but in these rare spots, our understanding of physics is challenged. Weird things happen at extreme hot and absolute cold.

It slays all day.

Science, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!

Can we all agree that the left lane is for passing, please?

Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false.

How the hell does cellphone technology work?

A story is worth a thousand data points.

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Today, about one-tenth of the world's population are southpaws. Why are such a small proportion of people left-handed -- and why does the trait exist in the first place? Daniel M. Abrams investigates how the uneven ratio of lefties and righties gives insight into a balance between competitive and cooperative pressures on human evolution.

We've got two perfectly good hands attached to two perfectly good arms, so why do most people prefer to use one over the other for common tasks?

1 calorie = 4.2 joules, wait what?!

Watch this if you're willing to accept some shocking facts about climate change.

We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses and microscopes. At TED2014, he shares highlights from his latest project, a 3D film titled "Mysteries of the Unseen World," which slows down, speeds up, and magnifies the astonishing wonders of nature.