Independence Day is just one of many holidays in which Americans launch fireworks late into the night. Some states forbid people from launching their own fireworks, but that doesn’t stop many who have ...

From a Hercules beetle tough natural armor to a sea anemone’s soft fluid-filled body, nature boasts a variety of skeletons. A circa-1910 x-ray photograph of pot-bellied seahorses shows their ...

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