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• A Japanese study finally explains in detail how cats almost always land on their feet, and the secret lies in a very specific, flexible part of their spine
• Albert Einstein, scientist: “Education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school”
• The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades
• A 333-meter aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer arrive in Panamanian waters with thousands of U.S. sailors, and the stop comes as Washington moves one of its most visible naval symbols through Latin America
• What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time
• If spiders suddenly disappeared from Earth, the initial relief many people would feel would be short-lived, as the ecological and biological void they would leave behind would be quite severe
• After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm
• For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions
• Stephen Hawking, scientist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”