What Are The Five Stages Of Decomposition
No matter how well built the machine, nothing lasts forever. At some point, one of your body's vital parts stops working, putting you out of service forever.
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When Does A Body Start To Decompose?
We all know that our time on this Earth is fleeting, but what exactly happens to our body after we draw our final breath? Death is more a process than an event.
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The One Alcoholic Drink That Actually Tastes Better On A Plane
Bland airplane food has been the subject of so many comedic observations for so long that it's now become the go-to cliché for making fun of bad stand-up.
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Why The Gut Is Called The 'Second Brain'
You know the phrase "gut feeling"? We use it to mean instinct, or driving force, a certain difficult-to-describe sense protecting us from bad decisions.
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What Is A Bomb Cyclone?
While some areas may be less affected than others, sudden changes in the atmosphere cause devastating damage to virtually any location on Earth.
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What Is The Tallest Animal That's Ever Existed?
The tallest creature to ever pound its massive feet into Earth's soil was, obviously, a dinosaur. But which one?
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Why We Might Be Mining Asteroids In The Near Future
The ability to analyze asteroids is a revolutionary achievement by itself, but some have an even grander ambition: asteroid mining.
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The Surprising Reason People Could Age Slower In Space
While their delivery is often used to determine which is "older," identical twins age at exactly the same rate on account of coming from the same egg.
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The Bizarre Sound Black Holes Make When They Collide
Black holes are a recognizable cosmic phenomenon, partially because it's easy to envision a giant space "hole" around which things swirl like a drain.
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The Truth Behind The Time Russia Tried To Steal The Space Shuttle
Soviet officials deeply wanted to affect the appearance of technological parity — both for international optics and over fears of the shuttle's capabilities.
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The Sad Truth About Pangolin Trafficking
Through West and Central Africa and along the dotted rural landscapes of Vietnam, a rare endangered mammal is robbed of its life and traded for its scales.
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What Insect Has The Most Painful Sting?
What insect has the most painful sting? The world's most painful insect sting is delivered by the bullet ant.
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What Happens When A Snake Tries To Eat Itself?
Actual snakes sometimes try to eat their actual tails. What happens when a snake tries to eat itself?
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The Truth Behind The Giant Cloud Of Alcohol In Space
A region known as W3(OH) is a cloud only 6,500 light-years away from Earth that is almost entirely made out of methyl alcohol.
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Why Some Scientists Believe The Earth Was Once Purple
Life has taken some exceptionally radical turns in its 3.7 billion-year history. Here's why some scientists believe the Earth was once purple.
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The Truth About The Christian Science Church
The words "Christian" and "science" don't typically jive, so the religion called Christian Science is one of those things that makes you wonder.
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Weirdest Weather Events Ever
Some of the weirdest weather events in history have been totally forgotten today.
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This Is How The North Pole Smells
Who among us hasn't looked at photographs of the ethereal, sweeping North Pole and wondered what it's like to be there? What would it ... smell like?
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Innovative Vehicle Ideas That Immediately Failed
The car industry has always been a hotbed of innovation, but quite a few of these "great" ideas didn't work out well. At all.
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How Would Doctors Perform Surgery In Space?
It would take at least 150 days to get to Mars with current astronautical equipment. So what happens if you get a blood clot?
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The Largest Chicken Breed In The World
The true "rex goliath" of domesticated fowl is the Jersey Giant, which sounds as much like the nickname of an amateur Garden State boxer as a chicken breed.
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What Happens If You Touch A Blue Poison Dart Frog?
The blue poison dart frog is a perfect example of how reality can be blown out of proportion.
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Two Objects In Our Solar System That Orbit The Sun Backwards
Since that gas cloud happened to be rotating counterclockwise, everything in today's Solar System rotates counterclockwise as well. Well, almost everything...
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What Happens To Your Body When You Die By Guillotine
Compared to some grim execution methods, beheading, at least in theory, seems somewhat quicker and more humane. In reality? Not always.
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Why MKUltra's Top Brainwashing Scientist Was A Real-Life Nightmare
Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron did experiments so horrifying he's been called "Scotland's Mengele." Here's why MKUltra's top brainwashing scientist was a nightmare.
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Why A Circumhorizon Arc Is Not A Fire Rainbow
Another extremely rare occurrence, so uncommon most people have never even seen one or more than a fleeting glance, at least, is the circumhorizon arc.
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What You Didn't Know About New York City's Poop Train
New York City has a population of nearly 9 million people. According to sources, these city dwellers produce approximately 1,200 tons of sewage each day.
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