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24 Facts You Didn’t Know About Isaac Newton

Regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time, Isaac Newton’s contributions to the field of physics are unparalleled. His book, the Principia Mathematica, is still one of the most important and relevant scientific works in history, even now 300 years after it was first published. Even so,...

By John Kuroski • Nov 22, 2014

24 Facts You Didn’t Know About Isaac Newton

Regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time, Isaac Newton’s contributions to the field of physics are unparalleled. His book, the Principia Mathematica, is still one of the most important and relevant scientific works in history, even now 300 years after it was first published. Even so,...

By John Kuroski • November 22, 2014

10 Science Myths That Won’t Die

Science Myths: McDonald’s Hamburgers Don’t Rot This “fact” has been making the internet rounds for a while now, but as with most things internet, you’re not getting the big picture. As the story goes, fast food is laden with so many preservatives and chemicals that it doesn’t physically decompose, and...

By Erin Kelly • Nov 11, 2014

10 Science Myths That Won’t Die

Science Myths: McDonald’s Hamburgers Don’t Rot This “fact” has been making the internet rounds for a while now, but as with most things internet, you’re not getting the big picture. As the story goes, fast food is laden with so many preservatives and chemicals that it doesn’t physically decompose, and...

By Erin Kelly • November 11, 2014

Don’t Stop and Smell These Flowers: The Poison Garden at Alnwick

The beauty of vast, luxurious gardens makes for some very popular places to visit, especially when looking for a restorative escape from the modern world. But there is one garden whose popularity comes for far different reasons. At Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England, you will find a nursery of the...

By Erin Kelly • Nov 10, 2014

Don’t Stop and Smell These Flowers: The Poison Garden at Alnwick

The beauty of vast, luxurious gardens makes for some very popular places to visit, especially when looking for a restorative escape from the modern world. But there is one garden whose popularity comes for far different reasons. At Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England, you will find a nursery of the...

By Erin Kelly • November 10, 2014

The Effects Of A Lightning Strike On The Human Body

The effects of a lightning strike on the human body are often debilitating, if not fatal. Here's why.

By Kiri Picone • Nov 9, 2014

The Effects Of A Lightning Strike On The Human Body

The effects of a lightning strike on the human body are often debilitating, if not fatal. Here's why.

By Kiri Picone • November 9, 2014

What A 45,000 Year-Old Bone Reveals About Human-Neanderthal Relations

In 2008, a bearded Russian man named Nikolai Peristov was searching for mammoth tusks along the muddy banks of the Irtysh River in Siberia. Peristov is both a historian and a jewelry maker, and his plan was to carve out pendants and charms from the ivory of the ancient tusks....

By John Schellhase • Nov 7, 2014

What A 45,000 Year-Old Bone Reveals About Human-Neanderthal Relations

In 2008, a bearded Russian man named Nikolai Peristov was searching for mammoth tusks along the muddy banks of the Irtysh River in Siberia. Peristov is both a historian and a jewelry maker, and his plan was to carve out pendants and charms from the ivory of the ancient tusks....

By John Schellhase • November 7, 2014

How Starling Murmuration Research Could Save A Species

Starlings form flocks that twist through the sky and create beautiful patterns known as starling murmurations.

By Kiri Picone • Oct 25, 2014

How Starling Murmuration Research Could Save A Species

Starlings form flocks that twist through the sky and create beautiful patterns known as starling murmurations.

By Kiri Picone • October 25, 2014

The World Before God Created It

As the Sun set on the evening of what would someday be known as Saturday, October 22, 4004 BCE, nobody in the world could imagine what the next 6,000 years would be like. The people of that time—all 14 million of them—lived in a world of stone and wood. With...

By Richard Stockton • Oct 22, 2014

The World Before God Created It

As the Sun set on the evening of what would someday be known as Saturday, October 22, 4004 BCE, nobody in the world could imagine what the next 6,000 years would be like. The people of that time—all 14 million of them—lived in a world of stone and wood. With...

By Richard Stockton • October 22, 2014

Are You Smarter Than A Cetacean?

Cetacean intelligence is an object of fascination among scientists. Their social complexity and methods of communications rival, or even outmatch, our own.

By All That's Interesting • Sep 22, 2014

Are You Smarter Than A Cetacean?

Cetacean intelligence is an object of fascination among scientists. Their social complexity and methods of communications rival, or even outmatch, our own.

By All That's Interesting • September 22, 2014

5 Extreme Protests You Won’t Believe

In a way, every major event in history can be reduced to a tale of power struggle and protest. Successful protests have struck down reprehensible policies like Apartheid, and brought attention to previously unknown issues like the many missing indigenous women in Canada. The extreme protests featured here cover a...

By Susan Sims • Sep 17, 2014

5 Extreme Protests You Won’t Believe

In a way, every major event in history can be reduced to a tale of power struggle and protest. Successful protests have struck down reprehensible policies like Apartheid, and brought attention to previously unknown issues like the many missing indigenous women in Canada. The extreme protests featured here cover a...

By Susan Sims • September 17, 2014

Tanaka Tatsuya Transforms The Mundane Into The Magical

Tanaka Tatsuya's work -- taking every day objects and turning them into playful scenes -- proves that imagination doesn't have to die when your youth does.

By Erin Kelly • Sep 13, 2014

Tanaka Tatsuya Transforms The Mundane Into The Magical

Tanaka Tatsuya's work -- taking every day objects and turning them into playful scenes -- proves that imagination doesn't have to die when your youth does.

By Erin Kelly • September 13, 2014