Science & Nature

Fascinating facts about physics, biology, space, geology, and the natural world.

There is a Region in Antarctica That is So Dry. Not Even Ice Can Form There. It Has Not Seen Rain in Nearly 2 Million Years and is Host to Unique Lifeforms.

There is a Region in Antarctica That is So Dry. Not Even Ice Can Form There. It Has Not Seen Rain in Nearly 2 Million Years and is Host to Unique Lifeforms. January 1, 2023

The Radiation in a Nuclear Power Plant Does Not Produce Electricity. It Heats Water Into Steam Which Runs a Turbine That Creates Electricity. January 1, 2023
Astronauts on the International Space Station Do Not Shower for Six Months. Instead, They Use Damp Towels and Waterless Shampoo to Keep Themselves Clean. December 31, 2022
Human Urine Has Been Very Useful Throughout History. It Has Been Used for Tanning Hides, Cleaning Clothes, Making Gunpowder, and Brushing Teeth to Make Them Whiter. December 31, 2022
Astronaut Scott Kelly Came Back from Living in Space and was Two Inches Taller Than His Identical Twin. December 31, 2022
Out of 465 Documented Cases of Medical Self-Experimentation, 8 of Them Resulted in Death, and 12 Won Nobel Prizes. December 30, 2022
A Group Created a Sperm Bank Exclusively Containing the Semen of Nobel Prize Winners in Hopes of Selectively Birthing the Next Generation of Geniuses December 30, 2022
There is a Cosmological Model That Says Our Observable Universe is Inside a Black Hole December 30, 2022
There is an Unexplained Global Effect Called "The Hum," Which is Only Heard by About 2-4% of the World's Population. The Phenomenon was Recorded as Early as the 1970s. December 30, 2022
In 1981, Roger Fischer Had an Idea for a Volunteer to Have ICBM Launch Codes Put in Their Chest Cavity. In the Event of an Emergency, the Volunteer Needed to Carry a Knife to be Killed With. December 30, 2022
Bees Dance to Each Other in the Hive to Tell Each Other Where to Find Good Pollen. December 24, 2022
Physicist Nikola Tesla Paid an Overdue Hotel Bill with a Box Containing a Working Model of His Death Beam. He Warned Employees Never to Open It. December 22, 2022
Neil Armstrong Visited Langholm, Scotland in 1972. He Read a 400-Year Old Law Declaring That Any “Armstrong” Caught in the Town Should be Hanged. December 19, 2022
The Chernobyl Disaster Could Have Been Ten Times Worse and Could Have Affected Most of Europe if Three Volunteer Divers Did Not Drain a Pool to Prevent the Second Explosion. December 13, 2022
Della Porta Invented a Method of Writing Secret Messages Inside Eggs. Ink Transferred from the Shell to the Boiled Egg Inside. The Message Could Only be Revealed When Cracked and Peeled? December 11, 2022
In the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory Director was Frustrated with His Staff and Said His Scottish Maid Could Do Better. He Then Hired His Maid, Williamina Fleming, Who Ran a Team for Decades. December 9, 2022
The Hydrangea Flower Color Changes Based on the pH in the Soil. Soil with Acidic Soil Will Sprout Blue Hydrangeas, Basic Soil Will Produce Pink Hydrangeas, and Purple Hydrangeas Will Bloom in Soil Between 5.5 and 6.5 pH. December 4, 2022
Qian Xuesen Graduated from MIT and Caltech. He was a Major Contributor to the Field of Engineering and Aerodynamics on the Manhattan Project. He is also Regarded as the Father of Chinese Rocketry. December 1, 2022
Scientists in Australia were Studying Birds and Fitted Them with Tracking Harnesses. A Group of Magpies Helped Each Other Take the Harnesses Off. November 24, 2022
Major Wilbert “Doug” Peterson is the First Space Ace. He Managed to Perform the First and Only Air-to-Space Kill in History by Shooting Down a Satellite with an F-15A Fighter Jet. November 23, 2022