Our ability to count and perform mathematics is one of the reasons humans have been able to thrive. Math has allowed us to calculate crop yields, build enormous structures and even travel through space. Humans are astonishingly good at math but, it turns out other animals have some basic math skills as well. How they use this tool is much different from how we do.

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The moon might look like a barren rock, but it contains many essential elements, like oxygen and gold. So with future missions to the moon and the eventual mining that will occur, we have to ask, is that a good idea?

Ask someone young what they want to do when they grow up, and there's a good chance YouTuber is at the top of their list. The dream is creating cool videos and getting paid for it. Simple, right? It turns out, there's a lot more that goes into making money on YouTube than just filming.

Spider silk is incredibly strong. So why don't we use it for more things? As you can imagine, it takes a lot of spiders to make enough silk for practical use. Scientists are on the case, working in labs to recreate this incredible material. Watch to see what it could be used for.

You probably have thousands of photos on your phone eating up space, and you want to preserve those memories. IDrive is the perfect solution for backing up and protecting all your precious photos and videos. Use it to back up all your devices: PCs, Macs, servers, iPhones, Android phones and more. Sync everything to one account.

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