Imagine floating silently above cities, countryside, and wilderness, traveling in luxurious airships without engines roaring or massive amounts of fuel being burned. A...
Mike Hodge, who founded the Marakele Animal Sanctuary in Thabazimbi, South Africa, was surrounded by lions and tigers that he had looked after for many years, just as he...
The beach is one of the first places we think of when we hear the word sand. But sand is far more important than building castles or relaxing by the ocean. It is one of...
The modern circus was never the same after 1812; what had previously been concerned with horse tricks, musicians, and clowns started to include wild animals and began...
If you could peek into someone else’s dreams, what would you see? Would they be fully-realized scenes with clearly defined people and environments? Or would they...
Love can make us do some pretty crazy things. When we’re in love, our brains release a cocktail of neurochemicals that not only affect our moods and our well...
Some places in the Solar System have some pretty expensive rain falling on their surface. Let’s see if we could bring those home. What would it take for Earth to...
Every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region of Japan to watch men ride enormous logs down a mountainside. Not metaphorically. They climb on top of...
Imagine never being able to dream of landing on Mars or traveling to Saturn. Not because it’s impossible to get there, but because they didn’t exist. Because...
Humans have a knack for changing the environment. Often, these projects have effects we didn’t plan for. Sometimes, it’s disastrous. And other times, it gives us energy...
In August 2024, 48 year old Sergei Prichinich was entertaining a crowd in Russia while he guided Donut, a nearly 500 lb (227 kg) brown bear, around a cage on a...
Imagine being able to sunbathe all day long. But instead of getting a nice tan to show off… You turn green! And get lazier. Don’t worry. It’s not the...
