Video Of The Week - Giant Snowballs Delight Locals In Siberia
Imagine going to the beach and finding thousands of perfectly shaped snowballs scattered around. That is exactly what the lucky residents of Nyda in Siberia’s Yamal Penin...
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'Virtual Unwrapping' Allows Scientists To Unlock Secrets Of 1,500-Year-Old Scroll
While ancient scrolls hold many secrets, opening the delicate manuscripts is always a tricky endeavor. The situation becomes even worse when they are charred as was the c...
Chicago Cubs End 108-Year Championship Drought With World Series Win
The last time Chicago Cubs fans had something to celebrate about was in 1908 when the baseball team won the World Series for the second consecutive year against the Detro...
Daylight Saving Time End Will Add An Extra Hour To Your Weekend
With Halloween falling on a Monday this year, chances are you are feeling a little sleep-deprived. Here is some good news at least for those that live in North America. T...
Nations Come Together To Create The World's Largest Marine Sanctuary
The world is finally uniting to save the environment. On October 5, the United Nations announced that the threshold to enforce the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement had...
Video Of The Week — Pumpkin Carving Goes Hi-Tech When NASA Engineers Get Involved
NASA scientists can build rockets, send men to the moon, and may soon even help establish a colony on Mars. But can they carve pumpkins? That was the challenge posed to t...
Smart Earpiece Translates Foreign Languages In Real-Time
Imagine being able to visit any foreign country without having to worry about the language barrier. Until recently, universal translating devices only existed in science...
Scary Study Reveals Spiders Can Hear You Shrieking From Across The Room!
The next time you shriek at the sight of a spider, be aware that the arachnid can hear you loud and clear from as far away as 10-feet! The surprising discovery by Cornell...
Diwali, The Joyful Indian Festival Of Lights Is Almost Here!
Today, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists worldwide, will begin the countdown to Diwali. Also called the Festival of Lights, the annual event is the most anticipated and...
Video Of The Week — Humpback Whale Calf Nudges Its Stranded Mom To Deeper Waters
In a reversal of roles, a humpback whale calf was recently seen nudging its stranded mother to safer, deeper waters off the east coast of Australia. The chain of events l...
Get Into The Halloween Spirit With This Spooky Soundtrack From Jupiter's Auroras
On August 27, NASA’s Juno mission completed the first orbital flyby of Jupiter. Traveling at a speed of 130,000 mph, the spacecraft passed about 2,600 miles above the gas...
Why National Zoo's Resident Elephant Shanthi Is Wearing Stylish Teva Boots
If you visit Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC, you may notice one of the zoo’s resident elephants, Shanthi, strolling around in stylish Teva boots. While the f...
Coral Vita Plans To Restore The World's Coral Reefs With Land-Based "Farms"
Coral reefs are one of the most diverse and important ecosystems on Earth. Not only do they provide food and habitats for the fish and seafood we eat, but they also shelt...
Harvard University's Octopus-Inspired Octobot is Adorable And Revolutionary
Robots have come a long way since ancient Greek mathematician, Archytas, released a steam-powered wooden dove dubbed “The Pigeon” in 350 B.C. However, the terminator-type...
Video Of The Week — How Geometry Shapes Your Understanding Of Movies
What do circles, squares, and triangles have to do with making movies? According to a new video from Now You See It, a YouTube channel that explores film concepts, it is...
Muggle Researchers Put The Science Of Harry Potter's World To The Test
Listen up Potterheads! Muggle student scientists from the U.K.’s University of Leicester have been researching some critical matters: do the spells and potions that Harry...
Ray Villafane's Pumpkin Carvings Are Like None Other
Looking for some inspiration for your Halloween pumpkin? Then you might want to check out American sculptor and artist, Ray Villafane’s masterpieces. The two-time winner...
The World's Deepest Underwater Cave is Almost The Height Of The Empire State Building
Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski’s fascination with the Hranická Propast, or Hranice Abyss, an underwater cave in the Czech Republic, began in 1999. The diver, who on...
Leonardo Da Vinci's "Irrelevant" Scribbles Are The First Recorded Laws Of Friction
Legendary artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, who conducted the first systematic study of friction, has always been credited as the pioneer in Tribology. But while hi...
Video Of The Week — Adorable Polar Bear Cub Nora Chills Out At The Oregon Zoo
Nora, the polar bear born to Columbus Zoo residents Nanuq and Aurora, has captivated the world since her birth on November 6. She is after all, the only polar bear born a...
Hurricane Matthew Leaves A Trail Of Destruction All The Way From Haiti To North Carolina
The first clue that the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season would be an active one came in January, when Alex, a Category 1 hurricane, arrived six months before the season’s o...
Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners Used Molecules To Build Tiny Machines And Cars
On Wednesday, October 5, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating machines that are a thousand ti...
Perfectly Preserved Titanosaur Footprint Discovered In Mongolia Is The Largest On Record
In August, a team of Mongolian and Japanese researchers unearthed the world’s largest dinosaur footprint in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The print that measured 3.6-feet long...
Whales Mourn Their Loved Ones, Just Like You And Me
Mourning the loss of a loved one was initially thought to be just a human characteristic. However, over the years, experts have observed similar behavior in terrestrial s...