16 Wikipedia Pages That Will Change The Way You See The Universe

Robot proteins, immortality, Martian rocks falling from the sky, catastrophic eruptions, and reverse evolution! What more could you ask for?

1. Martian meteorites

2. Kinesin

A kinesin is something called a "motor protein." It's a friendly chemical that can, essentially, walk different proteins and membranes from one place in a cell to another place to help different cellular processes along. They are kinda cute, and you (and all other eukaryotes) have a bunch of 'em in you right now!

3. Despeciation

4. Limnic eruption

5. Door to Hell

6. Turritopsis dohrnii

7. 90377 Sedna

8. Snowball Earth

9. Theia (planet)

10. Zanclean flood

11. Blood rain

12. La Garita Caldera

13. Timeline of the far future

14. Great Oxygenation Event

15. Toba catastrophe theory

16. Andromeda–Milky Way collision

CORRECTION

Lake Nyos is in Cameroon. An earlier version of this post misstated its location.

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