The honey badger has an exceptionally tough and thick skin (almost 6 mm), specifically evolved to defend it from bites, claws and stings. A good example of how tough its skin is, is that African hedgehog spines rarely penetrate it. …

A lot of economic awakening has spread over the course of the last years. Targeted digital marketing combined with a stellar decade for the stock market have spread awareness for economical education and pushed many people to trade in the stock exchange and the likes, thanks to online brokers. A…

Strange as it may sound, raising hippos for meat was something actually considered. There was once a plan to introduce hippos in Mississippi with the purpose of breeding them for their meat. It was called “The Hippo Act”. Although they may look fat, they actually have huge muscles hidden by…

The characteristics of an earth-like planet with a higher gravity than earth would be numerous. First off, it should obviously be more massive than our planet, which has in itself a few consequences: a bigger size (likely, even though the density here would also be a factor) and less internal…

Even though most insects are able to see wavelengths of light invisible to us, like ultraviolet light, the vast majority of animals are unable to see as far into the red end of the spectrum as humans. And insects aren’t an exception. This is one of the reasons why some…

Pervitin was a drug derived from ephedrine and given to German soldiers during World War II. It was discovered and marketed by Friz Hauschild after he noticed the effect of benzedrine on American athletes during the 1936 German Olympics. Pervitin was ideal for motivating German soldiers because it reduced their…

It’s fun to speculate about what atmospheres on other planets look like, and doing so with a scientific approach is also an interesting and educational exercise. Unlike what many people may believe, the default color of basically every atmosphere is blue. Another common misconception is that it is oxygen that…

In the film, the Avengers use the quantum realm to travel through time, thus creating universes parallel to the ones they came from if not for their own presence in the past. With a little imagination, it can be interpreted as something equivalent to the Hilbert space, a vector space…

The varying rainfall in certain areas has resulted in the evolution of the ability to breathe air in various oxygen-poor freshwater fish. Lungfish are a species of fish that has one or two rudimentary lungs that allow them to extract oxygen even from air and breathe on the surface.