Science

I don’t know about you, but until someone pointed it out to me, I never really considered that the existence of glass is a weird thing. I mean, I enjoy science, and I read about science, but this particular quirk has escaped me for all of these years! When liquid is cooled, it either crystallizes...

There’s nothing quite as disconcerting as losing your wallet. It contains money, your ID, a bunch of cards that will have to be canceled and then updated on various sites, and on and on – it’s more than a little annoying, basically. That annoyance and stress doubles when you lose your things on vacation, away...

You might have heard recently, during the apocalyptic ice and snow event that caused power outages all over Texas, that wind turbines being unable to operate in the extreme cold were at least partly to blame for the catastrophe that took several dozen lives. Since, however, wind turbines thrive in places with extreme weather, such...

When you hear a word like “megalodon” to describe an animal, ancient or not, you’re probably picturing something – in this case, a shark – that’s really, really big. Just how big megalodon likely was, though, really only comes into a clear focus when we compare it to things we’re relatively sure of the size of...

Look, I get that doughnuts are a very personal thing. Some people like fancy stuff, others like a classic glazed, and don’t even get me started on the border wars between the cake and yeast folks. For me, Krispy Kreme doughnuts have never been a favorite because I prefer more bread and less sugar, but...

I’m pretty sure that about 95% of the population could use an extra $500,000, right? The only catch is that you have to be smart enough to figure out a solution to a problem that the literal smartest people on the planet – those who work at NASA – have been poking without success for...

I think it’s fair to say that we no longer live in an era where dead is necessarily the same thing as gone forever. Between medical advances, extreme life-saving measures, and cloning – not to mention that thing where people think we can upload our consciousness into a computer – I have no doubt that...

I can’t imagine what people go through who have schizophrenia. It must be a confusing and terrifying existence where you don’t know what is real and what is your imagination. I truly feel bad for the people who have to deal with it. So how does it start for people who suffer from schizophrenia? People...