Category: Shorts

  • See SpaceX’s Starship Launch To Orbit LIVE!

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    See SpaceX’s Starship Launch To Orbit LIVE! #shorts #megarocket Starship #SpaceX #rocket #Moon Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is about to launch its megarocket Starship for the second time. The first launch was a partial success, but this time they’re hoping to stick the landing. If it works, this will be a major milestone in…

  • Men Are Less Sensitive to Pain When It’s From a Woman

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    Men Are Less Sensitive to Pain When It’s From a Woman #shorts #pain perception #postoperative patients #study #Anna Sellgren Engskov According to new research from Lund University in Sweden, men feel less pain when a woman asks them about it. This could be because women have a greater capacity for empathy than men, and may…

  • Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shrinking Faster Than Ever!

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    Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shrinking Faster Than Ever! #shorts #spot #miles #kilometers #storm clouds Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is shrinking, but it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.** The storm is so big, it could swallow Earth several times over. And even though it’s getting smaller, it’s still got some serious winds – they spin…

  • Genghis Khan: The Last Man Standing

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    Genghis Khan: The Last Man Standing #shorts #carbon dioxide #leading researchers #ppm #Mongol invasion Genghis Khan was a man who killed so many people that he may have accidentally saved the planet. According to a new study, the Mongol invasion of Asia may have caused a sudden decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, possibly even…

  • Watch This Mongoose Take Down A Cobra In 60 Seconds

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    Watch This Mongoose Take Down A Cobra In 60 Seconds #shorts #group #mongoose #pups #males Mongooses are vicious little creatures that engage in warfare with rival families as often as four times a month. They’ve been known to evict family members, commit infanticide, and even eat each other. But despite their violent nature, mongooses are…

  • 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Fastest-Growing Plants on Earth

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    10 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Fastest-Growing Plants on Earth #shorts #number #fastest plants #genus Wolffia #prey The Fastest Plants on Earth** Have you ever been swimming in a pond and felt something brush against your leg? It might have been one of the fastest plants on Earth! Duckweed is a type of aquatic plant that…

  • Google finally loosens restrictions on ad blockers in Chrome.

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    Google finally loosens restrictions on ad blockers in Chrome. #shorts #Manifest V3 #key changes #Google #ad blockers Google is putting limits on ad blockers, but don’t worry, they’re making some “improved content filtering support” to make up for it. So now ad blockers will be able to “offer nearly the same quality of filtering” as…

  • 3,000-Year-Old Burial Upends Our Understanding of Prehistoric Gender Roles

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    3,000-Year-Old Burial Upends Our Understanding of Prehistoric Gender Roles #shorts #Las Capellanías #site #human figure #gender representation BREAKING NEWS: Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a 3,000-year-old tombstone that’s blowing up the old gender binary! The stone depicts a figure with both male and female features, challenging our assumptions about how people were identified in the…

  • The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking Down – Here’s Why You Should Be Concerned

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    The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking Down – Here’s Why You Should Be Concerned #shorts #cold war #clock #hands #move The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close we are to midnight, which represents global catastrophe. It’s been getting closer and closer since 1947, when it was set at 7 minutes to midnight. Now, in…

  • Did This Simple Chemical Reaction Create Life On Earth?

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    Did This Simple Chemical Reaction Create Life On Earth? #shorts #chemical reaction created ribonucleotides #chemical reactions #RNA molecules #life Y’all, how did the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that eventually led to life as we know it? Well, scientists think it had something to do with RNA, which is still a crucial component of…