Did you know that you ladies spend about 2,300 days of your life menstruating? That amounts to about 10,400 tampons or pads, over 5,000 pills for your cramps, and about...
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...
So, is our world just an illusion? Why do some physicists believe that physical matter isn’t real? What scientific experiments have changed our view of reality...
Across the globe, there are islands that look beautiful from a distance but hide extreme dangers, from deadly wildlife to natural disasters and strict access...
1.3 billion years ago, two orbiting massive black holes, circling each other at 250 times a second, collided in a violent, universe-rippling explosion that sent waves of...
What would you do if you grabbed a tree branch and suddenly realized it was not a branch, but a snake? Now imagine that snake launching itself directly toward you...
Deep beneath the surface of Mallorca, Spain, an experienced cave diver found himself facing a nightmare scenario. He was trapped hundreds of meters inside an underwater...
What if humans could actually grow food on Mars? Not inside sealed laboratories or artificial hydroponic systems, but directly in the Martian ground itself. Could alien...
Imagine suddenly finding yourself thousands of meters above the ground with no parachute. The wind is roaring around you, the ground appears impossibly far away, and...
What if all the coral reefs died out? What if we lost all of our coral reefs overnight? Ocean diving would become less impressive, that's for sure. But what about the...
Coastal cities across the globe are planning how they will keep the sea away as it rises. One solution? Just move the city. How much would it cost? How do you lift a...
From deep oceans to hidden rainforests and underground tunnels, nature has created some of the strangest creatures ever discovered. At first glance, many of these...
You’re deep underground when you hear an explosion. Fire and debris rain down on you. You’re alive but trapped, hundreds of meters below the surface of the...
It has blood red skin, webbed tentacles, and strange spines that make it look like something out of a nightmare. Meet the vampire squid. At first glance, this deep sea...
Billions of Cicadas Just Emerged for the First Time in 17 Years, and Here’s Why It Matters
For the first time in 17 years, billions of cicadas are crawling out of the ground across parts of the United States. Their sudden appearance may look like the beginning...
You wake up one morning and something feels wrong. The usual sounds of traffic outside your window are gone. There are no voices, no footsteps, and no signs of everyday...
Ah. The Sun. So bright. So hot. Time to jump into your super heat-resistant spaceship and get so close you could touch it. If you dare. How would you get to the Sun’s...
In the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole feeding on nearby stars. It’s called Sagittarius A*. And if a giant gravitational...
Swipe Down and Turn Up the Sound to Hear the Full Experience. Space is often described as silent. With no atmosphere to carry sound waves, there is nothing for...
Most people assume that being struck by an intense beam of radiation would be instantly fatal. For Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski, it should have been. Instead, he...

