
← IFLScience - Break It Down29 aug 2025 · 44 min
Glowing Plants, Punk Ankylosaur, And Has The Wow! Signal Been Solved?
This week on Break It Down: Think you know Earth? Think again; a new campaign is trying to overturn the highly erroneous map we were all taught in school. A new injection can make succulents glow pretty much any color you like, and better yet, they’re rechargeable. An intriguing new theory to explain the legendary Wow! Signal makes a convincing case. Turns out the oldest known ankylosaur was also ridiculously spiky with a trait we’ve never seen in any vertebrate – living or extinct – before. See the first 3D digital analysis of the only person known to have a proton beam go through their head, and why does frozen seafood glow? Why indeed.
So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…
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Silly mapPacific Ocean antipodesGlowing plantsWow! SignalPunky ankylosaurProton beam to the headGlowing seafoodThe Big Questions – What Will The Fossils Of The Future Look Like?CURIOUS Magazine