Steve Irwin, known worldwide as “The Crocodile Hunter,” spent his entire life working closely with some of the most dangerous animals on the planet. But on the morning...
It’s dawn, it’s dark, and you don’t what kind of weather is waiting for you outside your tent. It doesn’t matter anyway. In rain, hail, sleet...
Fake news may seem like a modern problem created by the internet and social media, but historians have traced its origins back more than a century. Long before online...
Lexi Yeo thought dolphins were friendly creatures until swimming with them changed her mind forever. Out of nowhere, an aggressive bottlenose dolphin started to bite...
Every city, highway, bridge, and skyscraper on Earth tells the same story. Humans have transformed nearly every corner of the planet, shaping landscapes to suit our...
What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we’d be sucked into a parallel universe, or maybe even the future. But...
If you happened to wander into the Nevada desert and stumbled upon the secret U.S. military base, Area 51, you’d quickly be arrested, killed, or maybe even...
When a piece of space debris connected to a SpaceX mission crashed into the Moon, it created a wave of curiosity around what happens when humans leave their mark on the...
Somewhere in the far reaches of space, a giant hunk of rock is hurtling our way, just biding its time before an extinction-level impact with Earth. Before you run into...
Something unusual seems to be lurking at the far edge of our Solar System. Some think it could be a hidden, oversized planet. Others suspect something far stranger, an...
Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be...
When people picture AI going wrong, they picture the film version. Robots in the streets, computers waking up, humanity ending up in service to its own inventions...
Since the 1960s, scientists working with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) have been monitoring the universe for artificial radio signals. The idea is...
America’s current President has repeatedly suggested and called for Canada to become the 51st state of America. While the Canadian government has forcefully...
For thousands of years, ancient cities have disappeared beneath forests, deserts, and modern landscapes. Entire civilizations have been forgotten, leaving behind only...
Before we take the plunge, we could better take a look at what Lake Natron is made of. Much like the Dead Sea, this lake in Tanzania doesn’t run off into any...
The Middle Ages, a time when you were more likely to die on the toilet than take a bath. And now you’re going there with an educational mission. It’s up to...
How long would something like this take? Why would this change the weather? And how hot would Earth get? If you think something like this is impossible because we...
Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. It is more than 300 times more massive than Earth, yet it is far less dense. Unlike Earth, it does not have a solid...
Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across...
