Psychotria Elata plant that looks like lips (10 pictures)
Psychotria Elata, also known as Hooker’s Lips, is one of the most interesting looking plants of Central and South America.
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Vintage Drug Ads
This collection of drug adverts gives an interesting historical and cultural insight into how mind altering medication has been pitched to consumers over the years.
Antarctic 100-year-old photo negatives discovery (7 pictures)
While restoring one of the exploration huts in Antarctica, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered a box that turned out to be a remarkable treasure. It contained 22 never-before-seen cellulose nitrate negatives documenting the life of Antarctic explorers a 100 years back. Preserved in a block of ice, these negatives surprisingly lived up to our days to shine a light on the Antarctic heroic era and the landscape itself.
Why Ferns have more chromosomes than you?
Chromosomes are fascinating little things, and today, Hank explains why more of them doesn’t mean more complex, and why different organisms have different numbers of chromosomes. The short answer: mistakes happen.
More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Design Award
The most accurate map you’ll ever see. You probably won’t like it. You probably don’t realize it, but virtually every world map you’ve ever seen is wrong. And while the new AuthaGraph World Map...
Fukushima’s Four Years Later
Photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski went into the exclusions zone, armed with a camera, to see how the area looks four years later. What he found is a testament to Mother Nature’s tenacity.