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Writers, philosophers and psychologists have long discussed the distinction between terror and horror. One widely agreed-upon difference is that terror is what comes before, while horror is what comes after. When your mind is set…

Once upon a time, a camera was an awfully bulky thing. It took many minutes to set up, and a family had to stay still for a painfully long time while they had their picture…

It might seem counterintuitive, but light can be both a wave and a particle at the same time. This has some pretty weird consequences - a 'particle' of light can be in two places at…

Most of the time, when we talk about looking back, we mean looking back in time. "Looking back, it was clear that something was wrong," you might say. The trouble with this sort of looking…

Here's an interesting question: why bother to get a reversing camera? Aren't there other, cheaper options that do the job just as well, like sensors or mirrors? And if that's the case, then why should…

Headlights are useful - essential, even. When you're driving at night, you need to see what's in front of you, and headlights do a stellar job at that. They even have a high beam setting…

People like to think that cats are intelligent. Sometimes we attribute to them a sort of scheming, genius-level intellect that they might have absorbed from the evil masterminds and Bond villains who love them so.…

In astronomy, there's a concept called "lookback time". The idea is this: some stars and other astrophysical phenomena are so far away, that it takes their light a really long time to reach us. Sometimes…

In fiction, disasters are entertaining. Whether it's a big budget disaster film like Titanic, or just your typical comedy of errors where miscommunications lead to cringe-worthy social awkwardness for all involved, we stare transfixed at…

It's an interesting discovery from neuroscience that humans actually quite rarely use any of their senses in isolation. For instance, taste and smell get combined all the time. A great deal of what we think…

Every driver knows the feeling. You're reversing down a narrow driveway onto a busy road, moving slowly, taking your time in case there are obstacles that you can't see. Suddenly, whoosh - another vehicle speeds…

On a country road at night, there's not a hell of a lot of lighting. Even if you have your highbeams on, that only helps you see what's in front of you. So if you…