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While the median age a dog reaches tends to be about 10-15 years, one Australian cattle dog, ‘Bluey’, survived to the ripe…

One theory suggests we’ve evolved to sweat whilst anxious to alert the brains of other people around us so they are primed…

How do we know? Some researchers tickled baby apes, which, beyond being adorable, showed that they share the same structure as ours…

There’s a planet mostly made from diamond. Called 55 Cancri e, it’s around twice the size of Earth and some 40 light-years away…

Snails have teeth. Between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise. They aren’t like ours, though, so don’t be thinking about snails with…

Football teams wearing red kits play better. The colour of your clothes can affect how you’re perceived by others and change how you feel.…

Animals can experience time differently from humans. To smaller animals, the world around them moves more slowly compared to humans. Salamanders and lizards, for…

You don’t like the sound of your own voice because of the bones in your head. This may be because the bones in…

On average, a person will share a birthday with 19 million other people from a population of over 7 billion. If you…

A skinny person tends to have less muscle mass than others, meaning their basal metabolic rate (BMR) is lower than those of…