Hurricane Florence, seen from the International Space Station in 2018. Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. NASA Christina Patricola, Iowa State University The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic. Globally, warm sea surface […]

On a dry lakebed in the Mojave, a group of friends build a practical scale model of time: 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, and our place within it. [To Scale | Via Neatorama]

In 2013, an Ebola outbreak began in Guinea. The country had no formal response system and the outbreak became the largest Ebola epidemic in recorded history. Guinea then completely overhauled their response system, and were able to successfully combat another outbreak in 2021. So what does an effective epidemic response look like? George Zaidan explores […]

Pulmonologist Dr. Ravi Kalhan answers the internet’s burning questions about our lungs. What happens to your lungs if you vape? How do our lungs know the difference between oxygen and carbon dioxide? How much snot can your lungs hold? Does lung cancer only happen because of smoking? Dr. Kalhan answers all these questions and much […]

From Carl Sagan: Eratosthenes’s only tools were sticks, eyes, feet and brains. Plus a zest for experimenting. With those tools, he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision. With an error of only a few percent. That’s pretty good figuring for 2,200 years ago.” Seriously, Greek scientist Eratosthenes did not only figure […]

Feeling embarrassed when getting caught talking to yourself? You are not alone. Unfortunately, many think this type of behavior is a sign of mental instability, but do not worry: extensive research spanning several decades reveals that talking to oneself is entirely normal. In fact, the majority, if not all, of us engage in some form […]

Dive into the insane engineering behind MRI machines and learn all about how they work in this video from Real Engineering. [Real Engineering]

Somewhere in your body, your immune system just quietly killed one of your own cells, stopping it from becoming cancer, and saving your life. It does that all the time. The vast majority of cancer cells you develop will be killed without you ever noticing. Which is an incredibly hard job because of what cancer […]

Far beyond Earth, a new type of alien water planet could be speckling our galaxy by the billions, like cosmic dew drops. These “Hycean Planets” range up to ten times the mass of the Earth, containing mega-oceans that could stretch down hundreds of kilometers. Their extreme pressures keep their water liquid across a wide range […]