Science

Maybe it’s because it flies in the face of evolution, but people tend to be shocked when others don’t want kids. They assume you’ll grow out of it or change your mind, but for some, the desire to remain childless is as strong as others’ biological urge to procreate. These 12 people express their feelings...

One of the most invasive questions people can ask is about your plans to have children. It’s no one’s business but the people making the choice–and sometimes it’s not even a choice. But that doesn’t stop people from asking. At family functions and even in the workplace, if you’re in a committed relationship and over...

With the way science and scientific research is going, it seems like life in our beloved science fiction stories could end up being a reality one day – even if that one day remains so far off that we’ll probably never get to see it ourselves. One thing that has fascinated humans for years, whether...

The only reason that shows and movies like Star Trek and Star Wars aren’t incredibly boring to watch is that they can “warp” or “go into hyperdrive” and pop from one end of their universe (or ours) in the blink of an eye. If we had to watch while they actually made their way across space, well…they would never...

Just when you think we know everything there is to know about water, scientists go and find a way to make it exciting again – and what could be more intriguing about the idea that water exists on Earth that also exists all over the Milky Way? Recently, researchers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics...

As a mom, I can say for sure that our kids are a delight in our lives, and while they can’t (and shouldn’t) be a reason to live, they definitely make the tough times bearable (and the good times even better). Now, there’s science to support the idea that moms who stay close to their...

Pay attention to nature and what it’s telling you! That can be kind of complicated if you don’t know what you’re looking for, but it’s absolutely true…because nature has a way of knowing when something bad might be right around the corner. People on AskReddit talked about warnings from nature that might just save your...

I remember after the devastating earthquake and the resulting tsunamis in 2004, I read a bunch of articles about how people saw animals retreating to higher ground before the massive waves hit beaches and how they just knew that something terrible was about to happen. Like a sense of intuition that humans didn’t understand. And...