Earth

At the risk of upsetting anyone, I just want to start by saying that flat-Earthers are wrong. Period. There are some things in life...

The disillusionment of finding out that the North Pole is not the same as magnetic north is on par with learning that there is no...

If you're trying to get from point A to point B in a boat as quickly as possible, make sure those points aren't between Russia and...

Since NASA is most well known for exploring, and justifiably so, it's easy to forget that the agency focuses a fair amount on our...

In a lot of ways, coral reefs are like the rainforest--we've been told for years that they're fragile, beautiful, and essential to our...

The world has been watching Yellowstone with a wary eye for years now, waiting for some kind of sign that the area's resident...

Researchers recently made a surprising discovery while conducting a long-term study of spiders in Western Australia when one of their...

The Holy Grail of astrobiology is still discovering liquid water on an alien planet, but scientists still aren't sure where Earth got...

What's creepier than an old, desiccated mummy or a skeleton with a prosthetic knife-hand? How about an 11-foot-tall ominous wooden...

Sloths nowadays are pretty mellow animals. But that wasn't always the case: up until around 11,000 years ago, the dreaded...

Here's a riddle for anthropologists and geneticists alike: What do breastfeeding, shovel-shaped teeth, and the last Ice Age have in...

What started off as a routine flyover for researcher John Sonntag ended with a discovery that scientists are scrambling to...

It's the end of the world as we know it, but... We feel fine. Despite David Meade's claim that April 23, 2018, will be the day the...

NASA is mostly known for their work in space, but they do plenty of work on our home planet as well as issues like climate change ...

When you have ants in your house or apartment, it's gross and you usually have tons of them to deal with. But hey, at least they...

While dangerous on occasion, geomagnetic storms are typically harmless. And they're undetectable to the average person except in one...

The extinction of the dinosaurs created an opportunity for mammals to take over the world, but a new study published in Nature...

Turns out, the whole "humans killing off endangered animals" phenomenon is hardly a recent one, and we took out some big ones in our...

To prepare for missions to Mars, NASA tests out its tech in extreme locales like Death Valley, Calif., and Lake Vostok in Antarctica,...

If you still remember high school chemistry, you might recognize the names cesium, chromium, and thorium, but what about Ytterbium,...