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What’s the Point of Grief?
Grieving is an experience almost everyone will go through at some point in their life. And is something we often have no control over. It isn’t just humans either. There is plenty of evidence, albeit anecdotal, that other mammals, particularly primates, stay close to their dead relatives or babies – even carrying them around for…
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The iPhone 12 Battery Might Actually be Smaller Than The 11’s
The latest rumour about the upcoming iPhone 12 has Apple fans worried: allegedly, the battery on some models will actually be smaller than on its predecessor, the iPhone 11. A report from MySmartPrice based on multiple certification documents claims that the base iPhone 12 will have a battery capacity of 2,227 mAh, compared with 3,110 on the…
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What is Methamphetamine or ‘Crystal Meth’?
Ever been in love? You’ll know the rush. That’s chemistry at work. Our brain produces molecules such as 2-phenylethylamine, the mood enhancer also found in chocolate. But eating chocolate won’t make you fall in love – enzymes in your liver break it down before it gets to the brain. Chemistry does explain why certain drugs…
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The Mystery of the Mouse that Died of Smoke Inhalation, But Went Nowhere Near a Fire
I looked through the microscope at the insides of a dead smoky mouse, and could barely believe my eyes. Thousands of tiny smoke particles lined its lungs. But the mouse had been kept more than 50 kilometres from the nearest bushfires. How could this be? As it turned out, the critically endangered mouse had died…