The Earth is making a weird noise, and researchers have no idea why
Thanks to humans, the Earth is a pretty noisy place. We’re loud creatures — certainly more so than any other animal ever to walk the …
Thanks to humans, the Earth is a pretty noisy place. We’re loud creatures — certainly more so than any other animal ever to walk the …
If you look at the entire timeline of human existence, we live longer in modern times than we ever have, and we’re continually beating world …
Australia is a weird place. Because of its location and that fact that life there has evolved in a vacuum — isolated from much of …
Horseshoe crabs are pretty strange looking creatures, with large domed shells covering insect-like bodies, but as odd as they are they’ve actually managed to stick …
If you were to walk up to a friend in public and show each other your bare butts, you’d probably get a lot of very …
Humans originated here on planet Earth and, all things considered, it’s a mighty nice place to be, but we won’t be able to stay here …
Archaeologists have found many, many examples of ancient human ancestors over the past few centuries, and while most of the time the skeletal remains are …
When you think of the International Space Station — that huge floating laboratory cruising through Earth’s atmosphere that has housed dozens of different astronauts and …
Scientists studying hard-to-find endangered species are often left with a difficult choice when it comes to locating specimens to research. They can attempt to find …
It’s been a rough couple of decades for Pluto. After over a decade of discussion about whether or not it should be considered a planet, …
Planet Earth is teeming with interesting creatures of all shapes and sizes, but life on our little blue marble wasn’t always so diverse. Science tells …
To say that 2017 has been weird would be a huge understatement. It’s been a year packed with political unrest, tech gaffes and security breaches, …
Anyone who’s ever been on the receiving end of a glitter-filled birthday card or spent more than an hour in an arts-and-crafts shop knows just …
When news of a newly-studied exoplanet with an atmosphere begins to make headlines it’s typically because the far-off world is potentially Earth-like, teasing the possibility …
Many parts of Earth’s oceans are still largely unexplored, and the deeper you go the more mysteries are waiting to be unlocked. The deepest stretch …
Despite decades of research and hopeful myth hunters attempting to prove that the Bigfoot (Sasquatch, Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, depending on the region) is the …
The prospect of a human colony on Mars has rapidly moved from science fiction to reality in recent years, with space agencies like NASA, ESA, …
If you get lost at sea and find yourself on an island you’d probably try to build a fire, pile some sticks and stones into …
LED lighting has been hailed as the next logical step forward for our lightning needs, given that it typically consumes less energy and the bulbs …
Meteor showers are an awe-inspiring sight, and skywatchers often plan well in advance for their shot at spotting shooting stars as they rain down from …
Thanks to the efforts of NASA and various other space agencies from around the world, we’ve learned more about Mars in the past decade or …
High-budget Hollywood disaster flicks love to make up weird natural phenomena to vaguely explain why a bunch of crazy catastrophes are about to threaten the …
Exoplanets — that is, planets we know exist outside of our own Solar System — come in all shapes, sizes, and personalities. Some are super …
Space is weird. It’s full of weird rocks, weird balls of gas, weird stars, and weird things that we can’t even properly categorize. It’s also …
Humans, generally speaking, are incredibly interested in the potential existence of intelligent alien life. The idea that an alien civilization exists somewhere in the cosmos …
You’ve been hearing a lot of news about exoplanets recently thanks to increasingly powerful skywatching hardware capable of detecting worlds at an incredible distance from …
That terrible Hollywood disaster movie Geostorm fell flat on its face at the box office and got so many things wrong when it comes to …
The human brain is truly a wonder, and nature has honed it to be an incredibly efficient tool for processing information and hanging on to …
An incredibly powerful type of fungal parasite that is known to turn ants into actual zombies is actually even more devious than was first thought. …
Crab and arthropods in general are often pretty creepy all on their own, but when you see one ruthlessly murdering (and eating!) a creature you …