Should You Worry About Getting Bitten by a Shark? By Livescience.com Sharks elicit outsized fear, even though the risk of a shark bite is infinitesimally small. Here's why.
More Than 200 Reindeer Found Dead in Norway, Starved by Climate Change By Mindy Weisberger Heavy rainfall in December buried plants under a heavy layer of ice.
NASA Fed Apollo 11 Moon Rocks to Cockroaches (And Then Things Got Even Weirder) By Meghan Bartels The rocks were also dumped into fishbowls. And injected into mice. No, really.
Divers Find Remains of Ancient Temple in Sunken Egyptian City By Laura Geggel The underwater city was named after the legendary Hercules, who ancient people believed actually visited the city.
CRISPR Gene Editing Will Be Used Inside Humans For the First Time in Treatment for Blindness By Rachael Rettner The first study to test the gene-editing technology CRISPR inside the human body is about to get underway in the United States, according to news reports.
Why Do Chimpanzees Throw Poop? By Chia-Yi Hou Going to the zoo can be a great adventure, especially if you find poop hurtling in your direction.
These Butter Sculpture Celebrate NASA's Apollo 11 Astronauts and They're Legen-DAIRY! By Elizabeth Howell The Apollo 11 sculptures took more than 2,200 pounds of butter to create.
Why Does Mint Make Your Mouth Feel Cool? By Grant Currin If you nibble on a mint leaf, you might notice that it makes your mouth feel cool. That's because mint, much like chili peppers, is a biochemical success story — for plants, at least.
How Astronomers Missed the Massive Asteroid That Just Whizzed Past Earth By Yasemin Saplakoglu The space rock was up to 430 feet across.
Football-Size Meteorite May Have Landed in an Indian Rice Field By Yasemin Saplakoglu The strange magnetic rock was the size of a football.
After Scorching Europe, Heat Wave Is Poised to Melt Greenland By Mindy Weisberger Heat that shattered records in Europe this week is on the move.
Huge Ash Cloud Blasts Out of Indonesian Volcano By Rafi Letzter A volcano on the island of Java, in Indonesia, blasted ash into the air today (July 26), causing panic and spurring an evacuation of the vicinity, according to the Associated Press.
Man Dies From Rare 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba After Swimming in North Carolina Lake By Rachael Rettner A man in North Carolina died from a rare "brain-eating" amoeba infection after swimming in a lake at a local water park, according to news reports.
The Ice Is Melting Even Faster Than They Thought By Rafi Letzter A new study shows that the ice at the bottoms of submerged glaciers could be melting 100 times faster than anyone thought.
Organic Apples Have Way More Beneficial Bacteria Than Conventional Ones By Nicoletta Lanese About 90 million bacteria live in a single apple.
'Dark Matter Bullets' Could Tear Through the Human Body, Wild New Study Suggests By Mindy Weisberger A type of dark matter might be capable of causing gunshot-like wounds.
Remarkable 'Radio Halo' Could Reveal the Unseen Phenomena at Galaxy's Fringes By Isobel Whitcomb Halos aren’t just for angels.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity Holds Up Around a Supermassive Black Hole By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers have shown that Einstein's ideas about the warping of space and time holds true as the best description yet of how gravity works.
The Man Who Found the Titanic Is Hunting for Amelia Earhart's Plane By Laura Geggel The adventurer who discovered the Titanic is taking on a new mission: finding the Electra, the long-lost plane of Amelia Earhart, the record-breaking pilot who was last heard from on July 2, 1937.
Civilization-Collapsing Megadroughts of Medieval Times Could Be in Store for a Warming Earth By Charles Q. Choi From the 800s to the 1400s, about a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest, and all lasted longer than a decade.
