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Eighteen Apollo 11 Facts You’ve Never Heard Before

The world’s first pictures of Pluto and its icy mountains arrived just days before the 46th anniversary of what is surely history’s most momentous outer space occasion. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made history as the first humans to land on the...

By Kiri Picone • Jul 20, 2015

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Eighteen Apollo 11 Facts You’ve Never Heard Before

The world’s first pictures of Pluto and its icy mountains arrived just days before the 46th anniversary of what is surely history’s most momentous outer space occasion. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin made history as the first humans to land on the...

By Kiri Picone • July 20, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXI

Before Pluto: The Other Awe-Inspiring New Horizons Photos While you’ve definitely seen the new Pluto photos and you probably know that those photos are the fruit of the New Horizons’ nearly ten-year journey, you may not realize all that happened along the way. It zipped past our moon (within nine...

By John Kuroski • Jul 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXI

Before Pluto: The Other Awe-Inspiring New Horizons Photos While you’ve definitely seen the new Pluto photos and you probably know that those photos are the fruit of the New Horizons’ nearly ten-year journey, you may not realize all that happened along the way. It zipped past our moon (within nine...

By John Kuroski • July 17, 2015

The Heroin Vaccine That Could Save ‘Quadrillions’ On Healthcare Costs

This heroin vaccine could save countless lives--and federal dollars. Learn more about it with us.

By All That's Interesting • Jul 15, 2015

The Heroin Vaccine That Could Save ‘Quadrillions’ On Healthcare Costs

This heroin vaccine could save countless lives--and federal dollars. Learn more about it with us.

By All That's Interesting • July 15, 2015

Colorful, Mystical And (Sometimes) Fatal: 31 Photos Of The World’s Coolest Mushrooms

Giant mushrooms were peppered throughout the planet before trees. These 'shrooms have since shrunk, but we still think they're pretty cool.

By All That's Interesting • Jul 14, 2015

Colorful, Mystical And (Sometimes) Fatal: 31 Photos Of The World’s Coolest Mushrooms

Giant mushrooms were peppered throughout the planet before trees. These 'shrooms have since shrunk, but we still think they're pretty cool.

By All That's Interesting • July 14, 2015

Your World This Week, Volume IV

Bombings Rock Iraq, Afghanistan A small, but terribly destructive, wave of bombings hit Iraq on Sunday, leaving 35 dead and 100 wounded. Deadliest among the attacks was a car bomb coupled with a suicide bomb that killed 19 in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad. However, smaller attacks killed several others...

By John Kuroski • Jul 13, 2015

Science News

Your World This Week, Volume IV

Bombings Rock Iraq, Afghanistan A small, but terribly destructive, wave of bombings hit Iraq on Sunday, leaving 35 dead and 100 wounded. Deadliest among the attacks was a car bomb coupled with a suicide bomb that killed 19 in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad. However, smaller attacks killed several others...

By John Kuroski • July 13, 2015

Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

By Richard Stockton • Jul 9, 2015

Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

By Richard Stockton • July 9, 2015

Satan Once Lived In The White House–And More Surprising Facts About Our Founding Fathers

America's founders were trailblazers, but the Founding Fathers' beliefs were often quite bizarre.

By Kiri Picone • Jul 4, 2015

Satan Once Lived In The White House–And More Surprising Facts About Our Founding Fathers

America's founders were trailblazers, but the Founding Fathers' beliefs were often quite bizarre.

By Kiri Picone • July 4, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXVIII

The First Color Photographs Of The United States On some subconscious level, most of us imagine that the world before, say, 1920 existed in black and white. And why not? That’s what the photographic record of the era would have us believe. But as far back as 1889–14 years before...

By John Kuroski • Jun 26, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXVIII

The First Color Photographs Of The United States On some subconscious level, most of us imagine that the world before, say, 1920 existed in black and white. And why not? That’s what the photographic record of the era would have us believe. But as far back as 1889–14 years before...

By John Kuroski • June 26, 2015

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Secret Life Of Bees

Albert Einstein once said that if honey bees became extinct, human society would follow in just four years. While we cannot know if that prediction is true, it gets at a larger truth: bees do far more than make honey. Bees 101 When we think of bees, the honeybee is...

By Abby Norman • Jun 25, 2015

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Secret Life Of Bees

Albert Einstein once said that if honey bees became extinct, human society would follow in just four years. While we cannot know if that prediction is true, it gets at a larger truth: bees do far more than make honey. Bees 101 When we think of bees, the honeybee is...

By Abby Norman • June 25, 2015

TreeHouse Point: The Treetop Getaway For Grown-Ups

Explore TreeHouse Point, Washington's wondrous treehouse hotel, and discover its surprising ins and outs with these stunning photos and facts.

By John Kuroski • Jun 23, 2015

TreeHouse Point: The Treetop Getaway For Grown-Ups

Explore TreeHouse Point, Washington's wondrous treehouse hotel, and discover its surprising ins and outs with these stunning photos and facts.

By John Kuroski • June 23, 2015