Children of the night, what music they make. That’s right, we’re talking about the nocturnal flying mammals, bats. Besides being a source of Halloween inspiration, the...
Deep beneath the mountains near the Black Sea lies Veryovkina Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth. The cave is filled with narrow tunnels, underground rivers, freezing...
Some 5 billion years from now, the Sun will expand and become a red giant. And the Earth might be just in the way… If humans were still around then, would we leave...
A sudden reduction in size, shrinking by one centimeter per second, would expose a human to progressively smaller scales of the natural world, from ordinary objects to...
Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. This masterpiece in Dubai is twice the height of the U.S.’s Empire State Building. And it’s almost three...
They’re in your yard, on your walls, in your attic, and there’s probably one near you right now. The thought of these creepy crawlers might make you want to go on an...
Is it true that a barking dog never bites? Are you willing to take your chances with this angry beast? Sure, you might think you know what to do if a dog tries to attack...
When most people think of prenuptial agreements, they imagine thick legal documents drafted by modern lawyers. But long before today’s contracts existed, couples...
Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a...
Forty light years away from Earth, orbiting a small red dwarf star in the constellation Pisces, lies one of the most intriguing exoplanets discovered in recent years...
Every year, about half a dozen hurricanes reach the United States. With effects ranging from heavy winds and some flooding to the complete decimation of communities...
If only there were a simple trick to stop a massive volcano from spewing out lava. Like maybe plugging it up with good old concrete. A massive volcanic explosion sends...
To infinity, and beyond.
For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began studying a strange collection of...
Since its discovery in 1610 by Galileo, the rings of Saturn have enchanted us for centuries. Remarkably, we’ve visited Saturn before. Stunning photographs taken...
Falling into a black hole may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a very real phenomenon studied by physicists for decades. Black holes are...
Humanity has spent the last 100 years increasing our dependence on electricity. Look around…. your computer, air conditioner, microwave, fridge, elevator, traffic...
Do you find the time it takes Earth to spin around each day a little slow? Well, how about we speed things up? A lot. What would happen to the length of our day? What...
Space has lots of different things in it. Planets, nebulas, asteroids, the list goes on. So what would happen if we got rid of a single planet? Specifically, our largest...
Imagine a world where you could move objects with your mind, cure cancer with microscopic machines, or even live to be 1,000 years old. The future of science is...
