Yes, it is possible to have twins with different biological fathers. The scientific term for this anomaly is 鈥渉eteropaternal superfecundation,鈥� and it鈥檚 super cool. 鈥淗eteropaternal鈥� signifies...
Just about any publication that explores the role of diet in disease invokes Hippocrates鈥� famous dictum, 鈥淟et food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.鈥� Actually, there is no record of...
Black, white, and orange 鈥� the signature colours of a calico cat. Subtract the white and you鈥檝e got tortoise shell colouring. But there is gender colour discrimination at play: calico and tortoise...
In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary added the word 鈥渃isgender鈥� to its ever-evolving listing. It defines the adjective as 鈥渄esignating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender...
Being left-handed can be devilishly hard. In 1937, an educational psychologist whose work was later discredited wrote of many left-handers that 鈥渢hey squint, they stammer, they shuffle and shamble,...
Science is hard. This is not meant to dissuade anyone from going into the sciences. It鈥檚 just a statement of fact with which all scientists would probably agree, and it鈥檚 a sort of mantra we can...
There is a common parental misunderstanding that arises when the term 鈥渋dentical twins鈥� is paraded around. Identical twins are known scientifically as 鈥渕onozygotic twins.鈥� This Scrabble winner of a...
Cutting-edge science can be used to fashion mirages. We are led to believe there is value in the product, a drink to quench our thirst for knowledge. But when we have spent our money, we are stuck...
The word 鈥渕utant鈥� suggests aberrations. Whether we think of Jeff Goldblum鈥檚 stomach-churning physical deterioration in The Fly or even the unwarranted demonization of the X-Men by non-mutants, that...
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