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Though we don’t often notice them, tires make up a significant impact on our modern lives. Here are the 23 tire statistics, facts & trends.

Nature - A play about Isaac Newton's self-experimentation illuminates scientific rivalry, finds Alla Katsnelson

One of California's most polluted lakes, the Salton Sea, is home to algal blooms, polluted air, and copious amounts of dust — but it wasn't always that way.

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While filming the iconic movie Jurassic Park, the film cast and crew had to face a danger they weren't expecting: A powerful hurricane blasting through their filming location.

New Zealand is an island country and one of the many that make up Oceania. It is located in the South Pacific Ocean around 2,000 km southeast of Australia.

1918 murder of Nicholas II of Russia and his family

Actress Carrie Fisher is laid to rest alongside mother Debbie Reynolds at a private service in LA.

Large cave dwelling arachnid

Millions of naturally occurring micrometeoroids and man-made debris orbit the Earth.

For “science.’’

The Science of Nature - Spiders have been suspected to be one of the most important groups of natural enemies of insects worldwide. To document the impact of the global spider community as insect...

Sildenafil is a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension

Russia is the home to many a thing. Some of them marvelous, some of them pretty odd, the country's vast lands fit it all, as we have already established here at Bored Panda. Having said that, probably no one could argue that Russians are commonly known to…

Patron of Tchaikovsky

No cookie is as sacred to us as the Chocolate Chip Cookie! This best-selling, all-American favorite is a classic, and we're thrilled to celebrate it on May 15th for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
Popular lore has it that the cookie was first invented…