Why NASA Sent Thousands Of Jellyfish To Space In The Early 1990s

You've heard of monkeys traveling to space, but, uh, jellyfish? Back in the 1990s, when we had space shuttles available to ferry things ...

How Scientists Turned A Spinach Leaf Into Beating Heart Tissue

Vegetables are good for your health, but now there's a whole new way that one veggie can help your heart: spinach leaves can be used as ...

Plasma "Cannonballs" The Size Of Mars Seen Racing From A Mystery Star

A star with an unusual history is racing through the galaxy at lightning speed, likely blown away by a supernova and carrying traces of the ...

20 Amazing Artifacts That History Nerds Will Love

Historical artifacts and photographs never fail to fascinate us – they are like mysterious keys to other cultures. Artifacts are objects mad...

The Deepest Living Animal Ever Found ― The Devil Worm

How far down in the crust of Earth can animals survive? There are some tiny worms in the dark, hot depths of several South African gold mine...

Scientists Identify More Than 140,000 Virus Species In The Human Intestine

Viruses that inhabit the intestine are called bacteriophages, which may infect bacteria. This could impact the intestinal microbiome imbalan...

D.B. Cooper ー The mysterious man who hijacked a plane for $200,000, and four parachutes

The mysterious man who hijacked a passenger plane between Portland and Seattle traded the lives of passengers for $200,000, and four parachu...