Stories for REMORANDOM

The paper plane is one of our simplest and most enduring inventions – although prior to the advent of planes, they were actually called “paper dart...

  Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant in 1920) was an African-American tobacco farmer and mother of five, whose cells – harvested without her kn...

A 2011 report commissioned by the German Medical Association (BÄK) found that, despite there being no clear legal authority to do so, over half of ...

Vantablack is not a colour. It’s a substance that manifests as a black so deep and so dark that it seems to swallow both light and space. Ben Jense...

  The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum aka titan arum) is a botanical rock star. It derives its name from Ancient Greek (ἄμορφος amorphos, "wi...

  On an ecological fuckup scale of 1 to 10 – this was probably a 10. In 1935, with Queensland’s sugar industry under threat from beetles that ravag...