If the Earth had an edge, I hope it would look like this. The edge of a flat Earth. I know, I know, we’ve talked about it before. But there’s something...
THE SUN IS A GIANT BALL OF FIRE No. Our Sun isn’t a raging bonfire in the center of the Solar System. It’s actually a nuclear reactor. Inside stars, hydrogen...
Under extreme circumstances, humans can often pull together to overcome great odds. But when confined in a tight space with each other, well, we may not be at our finest...
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...
What if, someday, we decided that the usefulness of our planet had run its course, and humans needed to scour space to find somewhere new to live? But instead of...
Nature is full of surprises, but sometimes it gets a little help. Hybrid animals are created when two different species, usually closely related, produce offspring...
Despite what you think, the Earth isn’t really the monogamous type. Along with the Moon, Earth has another moonlike companion – a small asteroid wandering...
It’s a warm summer evening and you’re enjoying a barbeque with your family and friends. The sunny skies suddenly turn dark as a storm blows in. You hear thunder and know...
With Earth’s geopolitical tensions on the rise, the possibility of a global conflict is becoming more than just a distant threat. But in the modern era, a future world...
Black holes are often imagined as cosmic vacuum cleaners that swallow everything nearby, but what would really happen if you entered one even for a single nanosecond...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] If you had a device designed to freeze time for everything but you, life wouldn’t be anything like what...
Every time you drop your body down a waterslide, all you’re thinking about is having fun. You’re not thinking about how you’re putting your life in the...
Deep frying a turkey can often times be incredibly dangerous. So why don’t we try a different cooking method? Let’s send our turkey up into space, and have...
In 1850, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. Today, we’ve managed to bring that number down to roughly 10%. And if this trend continues...
The sound was described by witnesses as loud and chaotic, a sudden eruption that cut through what was meant to be a carefully controlled stage performance. On October...
Could we be on the verge of finding a second Earth? Astronomers are searching the galaxy for a world that could support life as well as, or perhaps even better than, our...
Right now, a wall of ice nearly two miles thick is covering the land where Chicago used to be. And it has been moving across the continent for 20,000 years without ever...
More than a century after its tragic sinking, the RMS Titanic still rests deep beneath the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. But according to scientists, the...
What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the picture? Only in the past year, our...
Coca-Cola can do some pretty strange things. And the ingredients inside of it might be even more bizarre. Just imagine what it’s doing inside your body after you...
