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Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth
There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor
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What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?
A lifetime of chronic health issues
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Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?
Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors
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A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs
Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children
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Ukrainian Protesters Are Auctioning Off the Nose of a Massive Lenin Statue
Lenin’s ears are also, reportedly, up for grabs
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One Human Year Does Not Equal Seven Dog Years
No one knows where the dog years myth came from, but experts agree that it’s simply not true
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The Only Primate With a Toxic Bite Might Have Evolved to Mimic Cobras
Slow lorises have snake-like markings, postures and a hiss that all resemble the speckled cobra
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Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals’ survival at risk
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See Depression-Era Photos from Your Hometown
Thousands of images collected to document rural life from 1934 to 1944 are available to peruse online through an interactive project
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The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors
Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon’s most distinctive features
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How the Humble Hydra Lives, As Far as We Know, Forever
Hydra don’t seem to die of old age. But why?
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Archaeologists Think They’ve Found the Dungeon Where Dracula Was Kept
Vlad the Impaler was likely held captive in Turkey’s Tokat Castle
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The Aral Sea Is Pretty Much Gone
The fourth largest lake in the world is less than a tenth of its former size
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Pollution From Hawaii Is Giving Sea Turtles Gross, Deadly Tumors
Nitrogen runoff gets into the turtles’ food and causes tumors on their faces, flippers and organs
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Enough Ice Has Melted in Antarctica to Alter the Earth’s Gravity
The gravity loss is tiny but indicates big changes in ice coverage
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Apollo-Era Data Is Helping Scientists Look for Gravitational Waves
Seismometers that were placed on the moon during the Apollo program collected data that is being used by physicists today
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Movie Theaters Boycott Netflix’s First Feature Film
AMC, Regal, Carmike and Cinemark thumb their nose at Netflix’s upcoming sequel to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
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Nearly 6,000 Migrants Have Died Along the Mexico-U.S. Border Since 2000
More than 40,000 migrants have died around the world
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35,000 Walruses Are Crowding Onto One Alaskan Beach
Some animals have already been killed on the beach, most likely by stampedes
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Thank Soil Microbes for White Truffles’ Heavenly Aroma
Bacteria produce the signature smell that truffle-sniffing dogs and pigs pick up on
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