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Laurel, a giant stinging tree of the genus Drendrochnidae, is as suspicious as it is large. Many reckless tales with hypodermic-needle-like hairs of its leaves have been injected with a poisonous drug that leads men to insanity and tells the rocks to blow themselves out of the rocks. Some of …

There are two traditional ways to make a leather jacket. Contains a cow, and takes years. The second includes synthetic fabric, and requires plastic. But there is a third option: thick sheets of woven fungus, grown on anything from sawdust to agricultural waste in a few weeks. “It looks a …

A Chikki animal turned a Malaysian man into a monkey by stealing his cellphone and taking tons of selfies. The BBC reports that Zackridz Rodzi woke up with a flash on Saturday morning. The man from Johar’s Batu Pahat said there was “no sign of robbery” when searching for the …

The only induction of the experimental drug has significantly reduced blood levels of coronavirus in newly infected patients and made them less likely to be hospitalized, the drug maker announced Wednesday. The drug is a monoclonal antibody, a replica of a patient-produced antibody recovered from Covid-19, a disease caused by …

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein called Venus “an obstacle to the search for life.” “Today we are making an amazing discovery that could tell us more about the possibility of life on Earth,” he said in a statement today. Broadstein explains that astrobiology, which includes the discovery of life elsewhere, is …