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5 Photos That Will Get You Unbelievably Excited For Shark Week
Shark Week!Discovery Channel's wildly popular television series about one of the oceans' most powerful predators returns on Sunday, August 4, for its 26th season.You can check out this year's episode...
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This 60-Foot-Long Inflatable Tube Is Actually A Rare Colony Of Jet-Propelled...
Nope, this strange underwater thing isn't an inflatable tube man swallowed by the ocean, it is a pyrosome.The pyrosome is so rare that for most underwater divers it may as well be a unicorn. It has...
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People Are Boycotting Shark Week Because Of A Fake Documentary About A Giant...
A "mockumentary" about the ancient giant shark Megalodon, called Megalodon: The Monster Shark That Lives, has created an uproar by their viewers, and by the science and science-loving community.Science...
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How The 60-Foot-Long Ancient Shark, Megalodon, Ripped Apart Giant Whales
Discovery Channel kicked off Shark Week on Sunday with a fake documentary about the Great White shark's prehistoric ancestor, megalodon.Megalodons did at exist at one point. But the powerful ocean...
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How To Make A Hamburger Without Killing The Cow
A hamburger made from lab-grown meat could save the world from a coming food crisis and reduce pressure on the environment. The Cultured Beef burger doesn't yet taste like a normal beef burger, but...
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This Tiny Shark's Bite Looks Like It Attacked Its Victim With An Ice Cream Scoop
It's Shark Week, so we wanted to tell you about some of our favorite sharks.My favorite is the cat-sized shark in the picture above — it doesn't look that intimidating, but its bite is quite...
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Scientists Risk Their Lives To Uncover The Mysteries Of The Great White Triangle
Until recently, divers hoping to catch a glimpse of great whites in the wild had to rely on immobile shark cages lowered into the water off the side of a boat.So one professional diver and guide,...
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Scientists Have Now Bred Bunnies That Glow Green
They look like normal white rabbits, but flip on a black light, and the two of the fuzzy bunnies light up a bright, glowing green.The two special rabbits were born last week after researchers injected...
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Scientists Just Discovered An Adorable New Mammal Species Chilling Out In...
For the first time in 35 years, researchers have discovered a new species of carnivorous mammal in the Americas. And it's super adorable.Looking like a "cross between a house cat and a teddy bear" the...
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These Amazing Dogs Can Smell Cancer
Dogs can use their noses to sniff out bombs and drugs, lead manhunts for murderers, and rescue people from disasters. And, now, they can even diagnose diseases.Researchers at University of...
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A Scientifically-Accurate 'Finding Nemo' Would Have Been Terrifying
The beloved Disney movie "Finding Nemo" got one not-so-minor detail about clownfish completely wrong.If the good folks at Disney had gotten the science right, it would have made for a very different...
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ZOMBIE PIGEONS IN MOSCOW
Russians are reporting that their pigeons are acting strangely — ignoring humans and vehicles approaching them, according the International Business Times. Because of their strange behavior, residents...
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How Tiny Bats Can Help Us Extend Human Life
Advances in genomics might help us live longer, healthier lives, but not necessarily in the ways you are thinking. The secret to increasing human longevity could lie in the genome of our flying mammal...
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A Three-Month-Old Baby Keeps Bursting Into Flames
A three-month-old baby in India is supposedly mysteriously and suddenly bursting into flames.The infant's parents noticed something was wrong when the child has a flame emerging from its stomach,...
View ArticleThe Best Compilation Of Science Vines You Will Ever See
How much science can you fit into 6 seconds? That was the challenge launched by GE on Aug. 15 to celebrate science on Vine. The response was overwhelming. After one week, the company had more than 600...
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By Altering Two Genes, Scientists Got Mice To Live 20% Longer
By altering two genes, scientists from the National Institutes of Health were able to extend the lifespan of mice by about 20%. In humans, that's equal to gaining about 16 years. Researchers, who...
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16 Jokes That Only A Biologist Will Get
Who knew biologists can be comedians too?This list of 16 biology jokes and puns are definitely corny and may be over your head, but don't worry: Underneath each image we've got the simple explanations...
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How Cats See The World Compared To Humans [PICTURES]
What do cats see? Artist Nickolay Lamm consulted three experts to hypothesize how cats view the world compared to humans.The biggest difference between human vision and cat vision is in the retina, a...
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This Is The Ancient Human Who Is Changing The Story Of Our Evolution
A 1.8-million-year-old skull unearthed in Dmansis, Georgia, represents the most complete early Homo skull ever found, a team of scientists reported Thursday in the journal Science. The skull, referred...
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Hiking Through Peru Showed One Journalist The True Dangers Of Climate Change
Rising sea levels and more extreme temperatures aren't the only problems we can anticipate as the Earth warms. Climate change is causing local extinctions of plants and animals — and in places like the...
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