Would you ever venture into the ocean if you knew this creature could be lurking beneath you? It’s twice the size of a T. rex, its jaws are big enough to crush cars, and...
Researchers have found a fish with a strange feature that makes it look almost like it has a human smile. Hidden beneath the water’s surface, the sheepshead fish...
Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline when you stomped on a bug? Well, imagine how this guy is about to feel. Call the army, heck, call your mom, because the end is...
For years, people living near the forests of Nepal and northern India lived in fear of a predator that seemed to have developed a taste for human flesh. She became known...
September 1928. A London laboratory sits empty while its owner takes a summer holiday. When Alexander Fleming finally comes back, his workspace is exactly as messy as he...
Death and the possibility of an afterlife have fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists throughout history. Fear, hope, dread… these are all things we...
Imagine, instead of looking up and seeing the stars, you see something like this: Coca-Cola ads are seen on billboards, magazines, online and now in space. How would...
We cannot live without water for very long. The exact amount of time depends on many factors, such as your age, health, and the environment you’re in. What does...
We might not be alone in the Universe. Scientists from all over the world have their eyes and ears wide open trying to detect signals of life beyond our planet. But...
Somewhere billions of years down the line, our Sun will begin its final transformation, swelling first into an enormous red giant before eventually collapsing into a...
For billions of years, Mars has remained one of Earth’s closest planetary neighbors, quietly orbiting the Sun hundreds of millions of kilometers away. But imagine...
A peaceful walk through the forest can turn into a dangerous encounter in seconds. You are hiking with your dog when suddenly it stops, starts barking, and focuses on...
Tectonic plates: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Their movements cause some of the world’s deadliest disasters, but, as you’re...
What would happen if you took the most energetic explosion in the Universe and sent it straight into one of the most powerful gravitational objects ever discovered? On...
I know what you’re thinking. This is… really weird. And also pretty funny. But instead of this just being a silly internet video, what if this were our...
The morning of her 22nd birthday, all Jacqueline Durand expected to do was drop in at a friend’s home to take care of two dogs. But that was to change, as she...
Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the last 50 years, the undisputed king of the Solar...
When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But surprisingly, Venus might actually be a...
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...
What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s hard drive, how would you know? Who...
