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Discover incredible scientific facts and breakthroughs. Explore 3 carefully selected articles below.

Golden honey in jar showing natural preservation properties

Honey Never Spoils—Archaeologists Found 3,000-Year-Old Honey

Honey found sealed in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs has been chemically intact and theoretically edible. The reason has nothing to do with magic — it's three boring chemistry properties stacked on top of each other in a way no microbe can deal with.

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Octopus underwater showing its unique biological features

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Octopuses Have Three Hearts and Blue Blood

Octopuses have three hearts and blue, copper-based blood — and the main heart actually stops beating when they swim. Here is why their biology took such a different path from ours.

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Fresh yellow bananas illustrating natural radioactivity in food

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Bananas Are Radioactive (But Perfectly Safe to Eat)

Every banana you eat is mildly radioactive — and so is your own body. Here is what the 'banana equivalent dose' actually means, why physicists invented it, and why it does not work the way you would expect.

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