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Why Is a Group of Molecules Called a Mole?

molecule model, element

Molecular Machines: Making for the Future

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Gravity: From Apples to the Universe

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Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration

Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

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What’s the Difference Between Great Britain and the United Kingdom?

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Adolf Hitler (Nazi, nazism, German leader).

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Black widow spider

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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