Crocodiles are among the most dangerous predators on Earth, and their appearance alone tells you why. With enormous jaws, powerful muscles and the ability to attack from...
An alarm blares across the ship. People start shouting. Then you hear it, gunfire. This is not a movie, and Captain Jack Sparrow is not coming to help you. Somewhere out...
While it might be nice to avoid any dangerous confrontations on your wilderness walks, life without wildlife would be pretty boring. If we didn’t have animals...
What if you walked into your favorite fast food place, and instead of chicken and beef burgers, they only had Woolly Rhinoceros on the menu? Well, it might not sound...
In most countries, watching a film is the least remarkable thing you could do with an evening. In North Korea, it depends entirely on where the film came from. An...
Are cubic planets possible? Could humans live on a cubic world? How would our climate change? How would gravity be affected? Could we stand it?
There are billions of planets drifting through the Milky Way with no star to orbit. No sun, no fixed path, nothing holding them anywhere in particular. They were most...
What if all the Earth’s land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep trenches, while the trenches grew to the...
If you were just three times stronger than the world’s strongest person, you could lift a compact car. What else could you do? Or, not do? Would superhuman...
Rodents make up 75 percent of all animals used in scientific testing. They breed easily, and their physiology and genes overlap enough with ours to stand in for us. Take...
For decades, the idea of growing human tissue inside another species sounded like something that belonged in a science fiction movie. Today, laboratories are exploring a...
Could you survive falling down an elevator shaft? How about being trapped inside an elevator for days? Or being inside a falling elevator? These are just some of the...
Everyone knows what a sunset looks like. Reds and oranges bleeding across the horizon, the day fading out the way it always has. Then you visit Mars, where the exact...
For generations, dogs have been celebrated as “man’s best friend.” They are known for their loyalty, affection, and strong emotional connection with...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Discover why modern civilization depends on thousands of satellites that most people never think about...
Experimenting on animals is a dark side of science and research. And most of us try not to think about the animals that experienced the horrors of testing when we buy...
Something is very wrong with our Sun. It’s turned into a spinning lighthouse of death. What would make the Sun so much more deadly than usual? Would there be any way...
Some plants have a real party trick. While most plants quietly grow, produce flowers, and spread their seeds, certain species have developed a much more dramatic way to...
Love can make us do some pretty crazy things. When we’re in love, our brains release a cocktail of neurochemicals that not only affect our moods and our well...
Pets can be many things to people. To some, pets are life-changing family members. To others, they’re noisy troublemakers. And pets are the stars of hilarious...
