Venus has been called Earths evil twin, and that's notsadlybecause it looks just like Earth but has a mustache. This episode of The List Show dives into that intriguing moniker along with 99 other … [+611 chars]
First attempts at visual acuity testing by optotypes Opticians realized earlier than ophthalmologists, that texts and their distance from the eyes were important for prescribing good glasses [30,31,… [+18091 chars]
The hypothalamus is best known as the controller of hormone secretion to regulate essential bodily functions such as reproduction and feeding, and is one of the only brain structures to demonstrate a… [+10078 chars]
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated and popular night-sky shows of the year, is likely to be upstaged by August's full moon. The Perseids are one of the strongest meteor showers o… [+3270 chars]
Even though it hasn't been collecting data for very long, the James Webb Space Telescope keeps breaking its own records for peering deeper into space and time. The telescope has now detected a galaxy… [+3213 chars]
