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Wildfire Ideas is a multidisciplinary marketing agency helping clients achieve digital excellence since 2012. With a history of working on Cold Fusion, AWS and Liquid Web, the agency eventually adopted…
While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so much more. Seeing Saturn’s rings or the Moon’s craters with your own eyes…
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HannaTor/ShutterstockSummer means salads. And salads are even more delicious with a good dressing. Most salad dressings are temporarily stable mixtures of oil and water known as emulsions. But how do…
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For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square…
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A veridical paradox with practical uses. Cottonbro Studio/Pexels CC BY-SAHave you ever bumped into someone with the same birthday as you? What about someone sharing a birthday in your workplace?…
The baleen whale fossil at Museums Victoria Research Institute. Eugene Hyland, Museums VictoriaBaleen whales are the titans of the ocean, the largest animals to have ever lived. The record holder…