On December 25th, 2021, NASA launched the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope. Hubble has provided and continues to provide us with...
We’re all pretty used to rain. We’re either prepared for it with an umbrella or raincoat or just get wet. Rarely does it genuinely upset us. But what about when it...
Imagine you are an Olympic athlete. You could be a track star, a distance swimmer, or a figure skater. Whatever sport you choose, chances are you’ve been training for it...
In 2018, Apple became the world’s first trillion-dollar company. To this day, there are just five companies in the world worth over a trillion dollars. To put into...
“People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair. The...
Plants need space for their roots and leaves to spread out. When plants are crowded, they compete for water and sunlight and this can make them less healthy. If humans...
Eagles can spot their prey from almost two kilometers (1.24 miles) away and can see what a mouse is doing on the ground from over ten stories in the air. If humans had...
Plastic doesn’t come from nature like wood or cotton. Plastic was invented by people in a science lab. There are lots of types of plastic with many useful properties...
Most modern elevators use pulleys and an electric motor to move the elevator up and down. A pulley is a simple machine, made of a wheel with a cable looped around it...
People have discovered around 230,000 different marine species. But since so little of the ocean has been explored, scientists think that there could be two million more...
Earthworms are animals with smooth skin and a body made of many small segments. There are more than 7000 different kinds of earthworms. They live in most temperate and...
Whales are perfectly adapted for life in an aquatic habitat. Their nostrils, or blowholes, are located on the top of their heads. Whales are covered in a thick layer of...
Earthquakes actually happen all the time. On Earth, there are about 500,000 earthquakes every day. The Richter scale measures how powerful an earthquake is by rating the...
If a family member calls you from jail panicking and says they need you to wire them some money for legal fees, would you second guess them and potentially make the...
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. – Ambrose Bierce” Reading philosophy isn’t fun. It’s a slow process that requires...
The Universe is a mind-boggling place. Actually, I’m not even sure I can call it a place. NASA says the Universe is everything, but what they really mean is that it...
In the year 1925, Einstein shared with a student his burning desire to understand the Universe. “I want to know how God created this world,” he said as they...
The year is 1665 and Isaac Newton is looking out his window at an apple tree standing tall in his orchard in Lincolnshire, England. All of a sudden, a ripe and lonely...
You are a chicken. Yes, you. You look around and sometimes wonder why your owner takes such good care of you. At first, you’re not sure. You’re skeptical. What if he...
We all know how it goes. One day we’re born, one day we die. Everything that happens in between we know and understand, but everything that happened before and will...
