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Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 - Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated...

Health & Medicine

What Is the Difference Between Influenza and COVID-19?

Geography

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Flamingos on Lake Nakuru, Kenya, Africa. (flamingo, flock, bird, birds, African birds)

Animals

Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg?

Animals

Do Sharks Sleep?

Illustration of a group of Brachiosaurus dinosaurs in the water. Sauropod late Jurassic to early Cretaceous

Animals

Did Humans Live at the Same Time as Dinosaurs?

Thanksgiving Celebration Traditional Dinner Setting Food Concept

Society

Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

American black bears (Ursus americanus), mother with cub in forest.

Animals

Why Do Some Animals Hibernate?

Group of children and their parents playing trick or treat on Halloween.

Society

Why Do We Celebrate Halloween?

Alfred Nobel on a large reproduction of the obverse side of the Nobel Prize medal for Peace on the exterior of Nobel Peace Center opened in Oslo, Norway June 11, 2005 to learn about Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and the history of Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

Society

How Do You Get a Nobel Prize?

Wasp spider. Argiope bruennichi. Orb-weaver spider. Spiders. Arachnid. Cobweb. Spider web. Spider's web. Spider silk. Black and yellow striped wasp spider spinning a web.

Science

Do We Really Swallow Spiders in Our Sleep?

Sports & Recreation

Who Really Invented Baseball?

Animals

Why Do Horses Sleep Standing Up?

The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

Society

What If the President Is Impeached?

Smart city and connection lines. Internet concept of global business in Sydney, Australia. Concept for wifi or bluetooth

Technology

What’s the Difference Between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi?

Animals

Why Do Cats Sleep So Much?

Glacier off coast of Argentina, South America. (glacial; snow; ice; blue ice; melting glacier)

Science

What’s the Difference Between a Glacier and an Ice Floe?

"Napoleon Crossing the Alps" oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1800; in the collection of Musee national du chateau de Malmaison.

History

Was Napoleon Short?

Still from the 2017 movie IT, Bill Skarsgard plays Pennywise the clown. Directed by Andy Muschietti

Pop Culture

Why Are People Afraid of Clowns?

A handout photo made available by Greenpeace Brazil showing smoke rising from the fire at the Amazon forest in Novo Progresso in the state of Para, Brazil, 23 August 2019.

Science

What Happens to Earth If the Amazon Rainforest Is Completely Burned?

Map of Europe. Detail from the World Atlas.

Geography

What Is the Newest Country in the World?

Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) family, Botswana

Animals

Do Hyenas Really Laugh?

Tyrannosaurus Rex attacking two Struthiomimus dinosaurs.

Animals

Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?

Animals

Why are cicadas so noisy?

space debris in Earth orbit, dangerous junk orbiting around the blue planet

Technology

How Much Trash Is In Space?

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