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A high IQ is a nice head start -- but it's far from telling the whole story.
A quick rundown of the pros and cons of solar energy for your home.
This will vary a lot from person to person, but the ‘rule of three’ is generally valid: 3 days without drink and three weeks without food.
There are more than 500 different species of shark swimming in the world’s oceans.
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, so the answer might surprise you.
The coldest place in the Universe is the Boomerang Nebula, where temperature reaches only 1 degree Kelvin. However, humans have achieved much colder temperatures in the lab.
Have you ever wondered why people around the world have different blood types?
Race is a very weak proxy for genetic diversity. It's something we could do without.
It happens more often than you think.
Corn and pumpkin are berries, but blackberries and raspberries are not and nothing makes sense anymore.
It's one of the most elusive and intriguing creatures of the deep.
Who said math can't be funny?
You probably aren't really ugly. Instead, camera distortion and perspective are to blame for your unflattering portrait.
Christmas is just around the corner, and the good old Christmas tree is one of the most enjoyable traditions of the holiday season. Thankfully, more and more people are starting to realize that cutting a tree and ultimately throwing it in the street or in the dump is not the way to go if you […]
They are over 16,000 people and ask to be the ones to decide their own future
It doesn't cast a web, but the goliath frogeater has plenty of tricks up its eight sleeves.
The science behind the Statue of Liberty's iconic green color.
The history of a powerful Christmas symbol.
From the ancient Greeks to quantum mechanics, the model of the atom has gone through many iterations.
A high-protein meal can be tasty, but it may come at a price you have to pay in sweat.
Ah, Christmas is just around the corner. There’s so much going on with gifts and celebrations and meeting up with loved ones that it’s hard to keep up. Then, of course, there’s Santa Claus. The embodiment of the Christmas spirit, Santa Claus, has undergone quite the metamorphosis over the years, and much of it is […]
This desert sea formed by accident, and ended tragically
There's a reason why humans don't ride zebras.
It's seriously cool, in more ways than you think.
It's one of the more spectacular things in geology... or is it biology?
A meme is making a difference for a country in dire straits.
The amazing story of how the Cosmic Microwave Background was discovered completely by accident by American scientists.
American patients tend to hear negative, menacing voices while African patients have helpful auditory hallucinations.
It's a humanitarian and environmental disaster.
Under Musk's free-for-all guise, Twitter is in a very precarious spot, and research says it's unlikely to do well.
These graphs and charts explain why the world is on the brink of a climate catastrophy -- but also how we got here.
Going outside with wet hair won't turn you into a viral magnet, but that doesn't mean you should do it anyway.
Sweden's unique approach in the early days of the pandemic put people needlessly at risk. A different approach would have saved lives.
It looks like a flying mouth with eyes -- and we absolutely adore it!
Struggling to save trapped and injured bats, scientists endure Russian shelling and accusations of spreading bioweapons.
Indoor farming is a growing trend in urban centers, where a single facility can grow millions of heads of lettuce.
We’ve been spreading a myth all this time.
The unlikely story of how an unusual material became entwined with a country's identity.
Such goggles can make night look bright as day.
Something to make you look at things with a different lens.
That's a huge mark made by a tiny number.
With a little help from a team of researchers, we get to see what climate change looks like from the perspective of a northern red oak.
Some stars are brighter than others, but why? Size and distance matter.
Cerf and Kahn may have invented the primary protocol for the internet, but many others made valuable contributions.
Given the development of California and its proximity to the fault, San Andreas can cause huge problems in the not-too-distant future.
You won't ever see octopuses the same way after reading this.
How a famous opera proliferated one of the most enduring myths in popular culture.
Turkmenistan's dictator has ordered the fiery crater be plugged, but closing the Gates of Hell is no trivial task.
How a strange illness connected to consuming human flesh led to two Nobel Prizes.
Even as some questions are unclear, the replica is helping us understand a piece of this ancient time.
