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What is the ‘red glare’ in the Star Spangled Banner?

By Tom McNamara / Jul 4, 2021
 

How a 19-year-old lion fathered 35 cubs in 18 months

By Tom McNamara / Aug 27, 2020
 

Here’s the real story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’

By Tom McNamara / Dec 3, 2020
 

The coincidental geometry of a total solar eclipse

By Tom McNamara / Aug 21, 2017
 

This ancient optical illusion is a 14,000-year-old puzzle

By Tom McNamara / Mar 23, 2020
 

Is it possible to eat so much that your stomach explodes?

By Tom McNamara / Nov 27, 2019
 

7 science fiction inventions that became reality

By Tom McNamara / Oct 15, 2019
 

Super rodents, atomic math, and Marilyn Monroe: everything you need to know about moles

By Tom McNamara / Oct 11, 2019
 

How to send messages 10,000 years into the future

By Tom McNamara / Oct 8, 2019
 

‘The Martian’ author Andy Weir answers your questions about Mars

By Tom McNamara / Nov 7, 2018
 

What if hibernating animals formed an orchestra and performed a symphony about their winter’s sleep?

By Tom McNamara / Feb 15, 2018
 

60 years ago today, a Soviet street dog became the first animal to orbit Earth

By Tom McNamara / Nov 3, 2017