Three passengers died — including a Dutch couple — and others fell ill on the MV Hondius sailing from Argentina toward Cape Verde. One case is lab-confirmed as...
There’s a lake in Antarctica that no human has ever touched. Not because it’s remote, though it is, but because it sits under nearly four kilometers of solid...
What if I told you there was a way for you to know what lies ahead for you? Well, science could just have a way to predict your future. And it might become a reality...
You are exhausted. Your clothes are soaked, your skin is covered in sand, and your entire body is shaking from the cold. Every step feels impossible. Your hands and feet...
Every day, billions of people browse websites, send emails, stream videos, and shop online without giving much thought to what keeps the Internet running. It feels like...
On July 1, 2024, 44 year old Jessica Rogue of Bogart, Georgia, was cleaning out her shed when she noticed a spider web. She did not think much of it and reached out to...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Cycling, as a means of transportation, is growing in popularity in cities all over the world; with good...
Antimatter is the most potent fuel source known to humanity. And it could be the secret to faster-than-light space travel. But where in the Universe would we find...
Wandering off a hiking trail might start as an innocent way to explore nature, but now everything around you looks identical. The trees all blend together, the path has...
How much water would you need to extinguish the Sun? How would we deliver such an enormous amount of water anyway? Would all that water even make it to the star...
The Deepest Lake on Earth Is Filled With Creatures Found Nowhere Else, and We Still Know Almost Nothing About It
Hidden deep within southern Siberia lies one of the most mysterious places on Earth. At first glance, Lake Baikal looks like an ordinary freshwater lake surrounded by...
Scientists have pieced together a pretty clear picture of what life was like on Earth thousands, even millions of years ago. If you fast-forward one million years from...
The hatch opens and the first thing that hits you is the light. Not the bright white glare you have known your entire life. Everything here glows deep orange, a...
From space, it would look like Earth had a giant pimple. Smack dab in the middle of Brazil. Back on the ground, you’d be astonished by the enormity of Olympus Mons. The...
In the time it would take you to order an extra larger everything pizza and have it delivered to your front door you could theoretically jump through that tunnel...
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...
For most runners, a mountain trail is a place to challenge yourself, escape the noise of everyday life and enjoy the scenery. But even familiar outdoor environments can...
Forget anything harmless sounding, because this is volcanic glass falling from the sky, and it could turn everyday life into an itchy, blistered ordeal. Picture waking...
There are some things you just can’t live without. Like gravity, oxygen, the Sun’s warmth. And we’re about to take those vital things away from you...
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...

