Jesslyn Shields is a freelance science writer working out of Athens, Georgia. She writes about brand new research for HowStuffWorks. Since 2010, Jesslyn's written science news and content for educational videos, because she loves to always have something new to yammer on about at parties. You can find her online at www.jesslynshields.com
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Boyle's Law describes the relationship between pressure and the volume of a container with gas in it. As the volume of the container decreases, the pressure inside the container increases.
Thorium is in many ways safer than uranium for nuclear power production. But is it safe enough to bet on for our energy future?
Machines can translate some of the biological functions of plants into synthesizer sounds. But are these synthesized translations the same thing as music?
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St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is an architectural oddball, but travel company RealRussia decided to imagine what it would look like in seven more conventional architectural styles.
Subsidence, or the decline in the elevation of land surface, is creating a problem for some coastal cities as sea levels rise.
Bismuth is a naturally occurring element with many applications in our daily lives, but even more than that, it looks amazing when it cools!
A new geometric shape called the "einstein" shape has been discovered and when you tile it, no repeating pattern emerges.
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The Southern Ocean has finally been officially recognized, though scientists have known about it for over a century.
Bombogenesis is a phenomenon in which the atmospheric pressure in the middle of a low-pressure system drops rapidly, intensifying a storm and creating a bomb cyclone.
Niels Bohr proposed the model of the atom that we still learn in school today, even though it's technically incorrect.
Gondwana was a humongous landmass that persisted for 300 million years before it began to break up, forming all the continents in the modern Southern Hemisphere.
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A research team has found that water acts strangely on an air-drying towel, which contributes to its signature stiffness.
It's possible that the giant, deadly serpent hanging out at the bottom of Fosse Dionne spring is just a legend, but divers have disappeared trying to find out, so who knows?
The Collatz conjecture can be worked on by 9-year-old math whizzes, but it's flummoxed some of the greatest minds of the past century. Will it ever be solved?
Dividing fractions is easy once you learn a couple of rules and remember three words — keep, change and flip.
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The Denmark Strait cataract dwarfs every other waterfall in the world, but you can't see it because it's deep under the Atlantic Ocean.
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When it comes to rivers, longest doesn't necessarily mean biggest, and length can be difficult to determine, so the top spot will always be debated.
You could stack the Eiffel Tower, the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty in Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the U.S. But, do you know what the deepest lake in the world is?
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A strange, but surprisingly accurate, ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived for millennia and was spread around Africa and Europe because it was just that effective.
You can't find trees taller than these behemoths. But do you know which is the tallest tree in the world?
Numerators and denominators, oh my! It sounds complicated, but learning how to multiply fractions is easy. It just takes three simple steps.
Entropy is the disorder of a system, but that means a lot more than making a mess of a room.
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Mammatus clouds, which are made from falling air instead of rising air, are one of the most spectacular cloud formations you'll ever see.
Finding the range of a set of numbers is an easy subtraction problem!