Stories for REMORANDOM

Petroleum or “rock oil” from the Medieval Latin petroleum, derived from petra ("rock" or "stone" from Greek pétra) and oleum ("oil” from Greek élai...

Umami – often described as the “fifth taste” – sits alongside sweet, sour, salty and bitter as one of the fundamental ways humans perceive flavour....

Christmas beetles are one of Australia’s most recognisable seasonal insects – small, chunky scarab beetles in the genus Anoplognathus, famous for t...

Déjà vu – French for “already seen” – is the phenomenon of feeling like one has lived through the present situation in the past. The term was coine...

  The idea of daylight saving time (“DST”) – shifting clocks forward in warmer months to extend evening daylight – has a long and slightly eccentr...

For much of human history, a full night of sleep was not a single, uninterrupted block. Instead, many people followed a pattern known as “first sle...