Back in the early days of studying earthquakes, scientists needed to be a little creative to test their theories while trying to get readings. Emil Wiechert, a German physicist and geophysicist, had a theory that seismic waves would allow us to see inside the earths surface. He was never able to ...
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How strong is the shock of an electric eel exactly? Biologist Kenneth Catania wanted to find out, so he decided to do that by letting the eel shock him. Normally, electric eels shock the water around them in a charged field that stuns their prey. But they're actually able to leap at prey above ...
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