To meat, or not to meat: that is the hotly debated question. How would life on Earth change if we stopped eating all things animal?
Imagine you’re out for a walk on a lovely day, with not a care in the world. The birds are singing, and the sun is shining. Actually, the sun seems brighter than usual...
Ask almost anyone why Pluto stopped being a planet and you will hear the same confident answer: it was too small. That answer is wrong. Size was never the crime. Pluto...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] You’ve seen it in the movies and read about it in books, but now the idea of creating artificial life in a...
Since its formation, the Earth has been revolving west to east on its axis. If one day our planet started rotating in the opposite direction, it would no longer be the...
If you have arachnophobia, you might want to look away. What you are about to hear sounds like something pulled straight from a nightmare. Deep in the rainforests of...
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...
Point a light at it and the light does not come back. Almost none of it, anyway. The skin of this fish absorbs up to 99.5 percent of everything that touches it, which...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Since its formation, the Earth has been revolving west to east on its axis. If one day our planet started rotating in...
Charla Nash had been to that house in Stamford many times. She and Sandra Herold were close friends, and she knew Travis, the 14 year old chimpanzee Herold kept as part...
Imagine being just 11 years old and being forced to stand in a public square alongside other children from your neighborhood. In front of you, a man is tied to a post. A...
Deep in the north lies Beachy Island, one of the most important historical locations in the Arctic. Practically uninhabitable, the remote island has nevertheless become...
Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down on Earth. You’d wonder what happened;...
It happens in an instant. A sharp pain shoots through your foot. You look down, expecting a small insect or a thorn, but instead you catch a glimpse of something dark...
You’re 100 m (330 ft) up in the air, moving at 130 km/h (81 mph). Your heart is pounding as you scream your lungs out. Suddenly, a sharp hit to your chest. The...
Most people have heard of shooting stars, but those aren’t actually stars. They are tiny pieces of rock burning through Earth’s atmosphere. A real star...
It’s June 10, 1990, and after an hour delay, British Airways Flight 5390 is finally about to take off. Captain Timothy Lancaster, co pilot Alastair Aitchison, four...
We’ve talked about settling on the Moon, Mars and even Venus. But how about somewhere that’s cold, dark and smells like farts? Uranus. What would conditions be like on...
You reach out to pet a horse when it suddenly snaps at your arm. Startled, you step back. The horse rears up. If it comes down on you, the injuries can be serious. One...
Around 40 light years away from Earth, hidden in the constellation Pisces, there is a small alien world that has captured the attention of scientists around the world...
