Science

Geographers define the Arctic Circle as everything at or above 66 degrees and 34 minutes north latitude -more simply, anything between the 66th and 67th parallels in the Northern Hemisphere. The Arctic Circle keeps strange hours, with the entire winter being more or less dark and other times of the year being sunny all the...

Obviously, barring any significant scientific advancements, none of us alive today are going to be around in 500 years. That doesn’t mean we can’t harbor some curiosity about whether or not our planet will look the same for our descendents, or different? If it’s going to look different, how will it look different? It can...

There’s nothing quite as fascinating as the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean. We have no idea what’s down there, for one, and the mythology and lore surrounding spots like the “ring of fire” in the Pacific are enough to pique anyone’s curiosity. The “ring of fire” is a vast loop of volcanoes, trenches, and...

There are few things that attracts human beings the way the ocean does. We’re not natural water-going beings, and yet, the lure of the sea’s vastness, the calming sound of its waves, has drawn us in since the beginning of time. If you’re someone who has gone out of their way to visit the ocean...

Human beings have been fascinated with space literally forever. There’s something about the vastness, the twinkling stars, the moving planets, that really kicks our curiosity into overdrive. Space is also scary, so these facts are kind of as frightening as they are interesting. Please, enjoy. 15. The last blissful 8 minutes of our lives. If...

Everyone loves space, and most people enjoy facts, so when you put the two together, there’s almost no way to go wrong! If you agree with me (and how could you not?), you’re going to love these people’s 18 favorite facts about space. 18. We are the Whos in Whoville. That there are 100 billion galaxies in...

We’re all thinking a little bit more about germs and what we touch when we’re in public these days, and that goes double for indoor, confined spaces like airplanes. And while you’re probably not under any kind of illusion that commercial aircraft are super duper clean places, this flight attendant’s TikTok should probably still come...

The more scientists who study sex, genetics, and gender, the more we’re learning about a topic that’s increasingly more complicated than we ever imagined. Biological males all share a piece of genetic material known as the Y chromosome, which, as far as we’ve known, exists to control the function of the sexual organs and other...