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A bright yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum can do something that sounds impossible: it can solve mazes without having a brain, nerves, or even a single neuron. In lab experiments, researchers…
Some wood frogs spend winter doing something that sounds like a failed magic trick: they freeze, stop breathing, stop pumping blood, and then come back when the weather warms up. As temperatures drop, ice can…
In 1972, workers testing uranium from a mine in Oklo, Gabon noticed something that looked impossible: the uranium had less uranium-235 than it should. That “missing” isotope was the clue. Scientists eventually…