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Though the quality of food eaten by astronauts has improved over the years, their meals aren't exactly fine dining, and some foods aren't even allowed at all.
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Although it's endangered, the Kemp's ridley sea turtles' numbers have been rebounding in recent years, they're even showing up in unexpected places.
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Hollywood disaster movies aren't typically known for their scientific rigor, but there's one movie from 2021 that might have hit too close to home.
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There's a chance you've seen people wiggle their ears and thought it's a neat trick. But that's actually the result of many long years of evolution.
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There's a myth floating around that most of our intelligence is inherited from our mothers, but there are a few good reasons that's just not true.
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While it's pretty common knowledge that different people have different blood types, that information might actually mean a lot more than you think.
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Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely eluded scientists for years.
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Among the phenomena of the universe, nothing feels more constant than time, but here on Earth, our days are actually starting to pick up speed.
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If you've ever been down south to Florida, you may have noticed that something wasn't quite right with the water. Why does it smell like that?
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Scientists have been working on ways to find new worlds far from Earth, and this strange method theorized decades ago has turned up an equally strange find.
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The Stegosaurus is quite a famous dinosaur well known for the plates lined on its back. But there's more to know about those plates than you might have thought.
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Flying cars have been a vision of the future since the Wright brothers got off the ground, but that future appears to be just around the corner.
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One of Florida's most popular attractions is its resident bottle nosed dolphins, and some tour companies have found a way to guarantee you see them.
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Jurassic Park undoubtedly a modern classic, but it did take some liberties with its depictions of dinosaurs, in particular the Velociraptors.
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Many species, including humans, have vestigial organs that are thought to be useless. But this specific structure might actually be doing more than you know.
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Everyone knows that herbivores only eat plants, right? Actually, that's not always the case, but who's eating the meat and why are they eating it?
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Looking at images of Earth from space, you might have noticed a conspicuous lack of stars, but it turns out there's a good reason for that.
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Ziploc bags, whether name brand or generic, are a ubiquitous part of American kitchens, but you may want to keep your baggies out of the microwave.
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It can be hard to distinguish between an alligator and a crocodile, but does that mean that they have enough in common to make crocogator babies?
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Getting to space isn't cheap, but SpaceX has built a reputation for getting there affordably, so how much does it cost to launch one of their rockets?
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Sleep is a time of rest and relaxation, but there are actually some vital bodily functions that your body simply cannot do while you're sleeping.
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If you happen to be enjoying the nature in Indiana this summer, keep your eyes to the treetops to spot this striking and small rare bird.
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While it might seem obvious that a person with blindness would only perceive blackness, the reality of the situation is actually more nuanced.
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Other than Earth, no other planet has been studied as much as our neighbor Mars, but despite that, we only recently discovered what it sounds like.
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The range of the Barbary lion once stretched from the shores of Morocco to the Red Sea in Egypt, but today they are all gone thanks to one species.
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You may have heard that the sun will swallow the Earth in 5 billion years, but the planet will be uninhabitable a few billion years before that.
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Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but we're not sure why.
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