cord of thin filaments used to remove food and dental plaque from between teeth in areas a toothbrush is unable to reach

New research shows how the depth of sleep can impact our brain's ability to efficiently wash away waste and toxic proteins. Because sleep often becomes increasingly lighter and more disrupted as we become ...

Hatebeak - Bird Seeds of Vengeance from the split CD with Caninus "Hatebeak / Caninus"

There are no intelligible lyrics, the vocals are that of an African Grey parrot doing senseless death-squawking.

"The world's only death metal band with an avian…

Ninety percent of psychology studies come from countries representing less than 15 percent of the world's population. Researchers are realizing that universalizing those findings might not make sense.

It's amazing to think that during the Apollo program, humans have actually visited the Moon. So, how many people have walked on the Moon?

Japanese multinational video game and consumer electronics company

Fiji has lost the legal document which confirms its independence from Britain. But does that threaten its existence as a state?

How a 1978 court case changed the credit card industry and put cards in everyone's pockets, but erased state laws that limit interest rates

Read about Linckia guildingii (common comet star) on the Animal Diversity Web.

Science is cool!

ethnic group

Say the word "doubt" aloud. What is that "b" doing there? Does it have any purpose? Gina Cooke explains the long and winding history of "doubt" and why the spelling, though it seems random, is a wink to its storied past.

species of marine mammal, the largest animal in the world

 

In the spring of 1918, just as the man-made horrors of World War I were finally starting to wind down, Mother Nature unleashed the deadliest strain of influenza

The Samoyed (/ˈsæməjɛd/ SAM-ə-yed or /səˈmɔɪ.ɛd/ sə-MOY-ed;Russian: Самое́дская соба́ка or Самое́д) is a breed of large herding dog that descended from the Nenets herding laika, a spitz-type dog, with a thick, white, double-layer coat. It takes its name from…

Brown eyes get their color from melanin, the same pigment that colors your skin. But blue eyes don’t have any blue pigment in them. Blue eyes get their color the same way water and the sky get their b

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the…

Posted in r/todayilearned by u/thehandlebarbarian • 44,399 points and 656 comments