Science

Fall is such a beautiful time of year. It’s a time of transition from summer to winter, and nothing quite embodies that transition like the changing colors of the leaves. According to an Iroquois Native American legend, the leaves change colors in the winter because a group of young hunters slew the Great Bear, and...

If you experience synesthesia, then you probably already know what it means. For everyone else, here’s a quick definition: experiencing something with one sense and somehow, that experience translating to a second one. Like, you see a scone, and can taste the scone. Or, you hear the letter B and imagine the color yellow. It...

Good news, space fans – it looks like there might have been life on Mars after all! Researchers just confirmed the existence of several lakes underneath the icy surface of Mars’ South Pole. The one massive lake and several smaller companions were first detected in 2018. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding...

Alright, it’s time to get personal, my friends. Because we’re about to hear from folks about the flat-out weird things that their bodies do. Hey, we’ve all got things like this, right? AskReddit users went on the record and talked about the very unique things about their bodies. 1. Whistlin’. “I can whistle through my...

Y’all, I had no idea that one of the best and move coveted ingredients for high-end perfume came from a whale’s intestines. For real. Whale vomit (or perhaps something like a whale gallstone), also called ambergris, is exactly that – and a raw, waxy glob of it could be worth up to $20,000. Ambergris forms...

I’d like to think that at the end of my life, I’ll have no regrets. But I guess you never really know what that will be like until you reach the end of the road, right? I think that we can all agree that listening to people talk about regrets when they’re close to passing...

Looks like New York and New Jersey continue to have a bad reputation. When Donna Paysepar posted a TikTok of her swimming in the Hudson River, the rest of the internet was shook. Though Paysepar looks comfy enough taking a dive, other denizens of the web quickly expressed their shock and disgust. https://www.tiktok.com/@thehudsonrivergirl/video/6860486989263686918 Seems peachy...

NASA scientists have discovered another possible way to make nuclear fusion happen. Not to be confused with nuclear fission (which would be bad) – nuclear fusion is a chemical reaction in which two atomic nuclei fuse and become one. Researchers have discovered that small-scale nuclear fusion happens during a process called lattice confinement. During this...