Forget doomscrolling for a few nights: August’s sky has plenty of reasons to look up instead. NASA says this month is loaded with cosmic eye candy, including a solar eclipse, one of the year’s best meteor showers, Venus showing off, and a lunar eclipse to close things out. Mother Nature clearly spent all her budget […]
For years, scientists have known there was a strange connection between shingles and dementia, but no one could say for sure whether one actually influenced the other. Now, several major studies are providing the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine may do more than prevent a painful rash, it could also help protect your […]
Cyclosporiasis can cause severe gastrointestinal distress, including explosive diarrhea. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus Azadeh Nasuhidehnavi, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Wesley Kufel, Binghamton University, State University of New York As you may have seen in news headlines or social media memes, there’s explosive diarrhea going around. Understanding how the immune system […]
What's The Fewest People That Could Repopulate Earth?Watch this video on YouTube So… the apocalypse happened. Nuclear war, a giant asteroid, or maybe the aliens finally got tired of our nonsense. The big question is: how many people would it take to reboot humanity? This video explores the real science behind rebuilding the human race […]
Is Gen Z Dumb?Watch this video on YouTube Every generation eventually reaches the same conclusion: “Kids these days are doomed.” Before that, it was comic books. Then TV. Then video games. Now it’s TikTok, smartphones, and AI stealing everyone’s brain cells. So… is Gen Z actually getting dumber? The idea comes from the Reverse Flynn […]
In quantum entanglement, you can learn something about one particle by observing the other in its pair, even across vast distances. koto_feja/E+ via Getty Images Aldo Romero, West Virginia University Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point […]
NASA plans to build a semipermanent base on the Moon in the 2030s, as shown in this illustration. NASA Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame Lots of excitement for space bubbled up in spring 2026. The Artemis II mission took a crew of four on a flyby around the Moon, and NASA officials announced their […]
How does the space station never run out of oxygen? – Alvaro Romero-Calvo and Theo St FrancisWatch this video on YouTube Imagine you’re 400 km (250 miles) above Earth when your spaceship suddenly flashes: Air production system failure. That’s the kind of notification that instantly becomes everyone’s top priority. This video dives into the incredible […]