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It’s the Civil War and you’re in the medical tent. In the darkness the man next to you has wounds glowing an eerie blue. Turns out, the men who had the glow were more likely to survive. The curious reason for Angel’s Glow won two high school students an international science award in 2001. It’s so gross. Your inner twelve-year-old will love it.
The Battle of Shiloh 1862 & nematodes with bioluminescent bacteria inside. image: from All That’s Interesting
Ants hunt for food, but how do they know how to get back? Content warning: Science is messy. Some ants were harmed and we...
Books. Remember them? Paper and that great smell, wrapping up all those wonderful words. Amy and I dumpster dived and picked through dusty shelves...
In this longer, old school Brain Junk episode, we go around the world from Thailand to Germany and a few countries in between. We...