When 10-year-old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, he noticed something curious. The butterflies he had cared for as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies flew away, but his stayed close. Most children might have simply smiled and moved on. Instead, the second-grader decided to investigate. Jo wrote…
For the first time in nearly 100 years, scientists have announced the discovery of a remarkable new dinosaur species deep in the Sahara Desert — a predator that stretched roughly 40 feet long and sported massive claws and palm-sized teeth designed to hunt enormous river fish. Estimated to have lived about 95 million years ago,…
An Alabama family’s walk by a river led to a “one-in-a-million” discovery: a 32-million-year-old turtle fossil. The Coleman family enjoys fossil hunting—a tradition dad Adam once shared with his father and now carries on with his children and wife. While exploring the Alabama River in Clarke County a few years ago, his daughter Talah spotted…
From breathtaking galaxies and nebulae millions of light-years away to dazzling aurorae here on Earth, the cosmos offers endless wonders for photographers. Each year, the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the world’s greatest space photography. The winning images from Year 17 (2025) capture both the beauty and the mystery…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the world’s leading wildlife photography competition. Every year, tens of thousands of photographers enter the contest, presented by London’s Natural History Museum, showcasing extraordinary images of wildlife and nature from across the globe. Previewing this year’s 2025 exhibition, the Natural History Museum has released several of the highly commended…
A starving dog found in a sewer drain has a brand-new life, thanks to a foster family who helped rescue him. Phelps was discovered in the drain and no one knew how long he had been trapped down there. His paws were injured, and gangrene had spread to his tail. Crystal, a dog rescuer and…
Have you ever imagined a robotic wedding cake with dancing gummy bears and chocolate-powered batteries? Researchers from EPFL and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) did just that. Through a collaboration called the RoboFood project, pastry chefs and food scientists joined forces to create a cake that feels straight out of a…
These amazing photos give us glimpses of galaxies, nebulae, and the the universe that few of us would otherwise ever get to see. They are the winning photographs from this year’s Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards. From images of our sun and moon, to spectacular skyscapes and Aurorae, the professional and…
Patrons at a Canadian public library can check out bees along with their books in a unique loaning program that’s catching people’s attention. The West Vancouver Memorial Library in British Columbia lets people take home a mason bee that comes with a bee “bungalow.” People then take care of the bees throughout the year. The…
Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, loves building puzzles and tricky mechanical traps, among them glitter bombs for package thieves. His most recent YouTube video to go viral is one of a complex underwater maze he built for his former pet octopus (he’ll explain why the octopus is no longer his pet, and don’t worry…
Photos of a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy and a colorful image of the Running Chicken Nebula taken by two 14-year-olds are among the winners of the 2023 Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The annual competition, in it’s 15th year, is hosted by London’s Royal Observatory Greenwich features spectacular…
Marques Brownlee likes to review new technology so he decided to visit 3D Pets and see how they use their advanced 3D printing technology to create custom prosthetic legs for animals. During his recent visit, the New Jersey-based studio was working on a leg for a dog named Cleo. Cleo was found as a stray…
Kimberley Bridges didn’t realize it at the time, but her dog saved her life. While out for a walk with Orla, her boxer-Staffy mix, pulled on the leash very hard. So hard that she was yanked over to Orla. What Kimberly didn’t realize was a large car had jumped the sidewalk behind her and was…
A gold miner in the Canadian territory of the Yukon didn’t strike gold but unearthed one of best mummified woolly mammoths the world has ever seen. The perfectly preserved frozen animal was recently discovered by the miner, who was digging through permafrost with a front-end loader when he struck it. The baby mammal is “one…
An amateur paleontologist in New Zealand is finding 12-million-year-old crabs on a beach in Christchurch. But you wouldn’t think they were crabs at first glance. That’s because the ancient crabs are hiding inside rocks that look more like giant pebbles or boulders than fossils. Using specialized tools, Morne (who goes by Mamlambo on YouTube) chisels…
Two Labrador Retrievers showed off their silly side when they proudly bring a stick they found over to Kasey Miller. In the video clip, it appears the two Labradors are happily wagging their tails in anticipation of playing a game of fetch. But first they need to find a stick they can play with. They…
Skiers in Switzerland experienced an unusual weather phenomenon when a wave of fog rolled over the mountains and towards them. Yann Engel and his friends were cross country skiing in the Jura Mountain Range on December 15 on a beautiful day. But the weather took a dramatic turn. Behind their backs a large wave of…
The footprints of meat-eating dinosaurs with three toes dating back 170 million years have been found on the coast of Scotland. Sky News reports that the gigantic 170-million-year-old dinosaur tracks were recently discovered at Brother’s Point on the Isle of Skye. Around 50 footprints were found by a group of international researchers that say the…
This breathtaking time lapse video of a soap bubble freezing amidst below zero weather is amazing to watch! If you blow soap bubbles in freezing cold weather, amazing crystals of ice form on their surface as the water is between two thin layers of soapy film, starting at the bottom and expanding upwards until the…
Humans really do love dogs more than people, new research indicates. It seems people are more empathetic to dogs who hurt than they are towards adult humans who are also victims of violence, according to a study. In fact, only a human baby got more compassion than an adult dog among the study participants. The…
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event – the total solar eclipse occurring on August 21, 2017, will be viewable across North America, and the next one this visible won’t happen again until 2771. All this hype, has prompted millions of people to plan on watching it. But Lou Tomososki has a warning to kids planning to look…
A vast iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie and the size of Delaware has broken off from a key ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said Wednesday July 12, 2017. Weighing more than one trillion tons, the iceberg broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, scientists at the University of Swansea in Britain…
The dinosaur fossil looks like it would be right at home next to the dragons in the TV show Game of Thrones, but it is, in fact, real. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Alberta, Canada unveiled a nodosaur fossil that is so stunningly preserved that it is being called the best preserved dinosaur…
While renovating an old house in Scotland, construction crews found a large dirty rag bundled up and blocking the chimney. The tattered rag was pulled out, but when they took a closer look, they noticed that there was something unusual contained within. They realized they may have a rare historical artifact in their hands, not…
Brain scans might help predict autism in babies before symptoms appear, that is the finding of a study that scientists at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have been working on for 10 years. In the first-of-its-kind study, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the brains of infants at high risk for autism…
Have you ever wondered what Old Norse might have sounded like? Vikings spoke a language that still echoes in today’s modern North Germanic languages Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. Historical linguist Jackson Crawford recently published a video in which he reconstructed what seemed to be a very close approximation. Fascinating!
When your dog sleeps what is he/she dreaming about? The answer is mostly likely you! Dr. Deirdre Barrett, a Clinical and Evolutionary Psychologist at Harvard Medical School, says it is likely that dogs dream about their everyday experiences, just like humans do. Barrett has spent years studying sleep behavior in people and says that humans…
It starts with a glimmer of green peeking beneath a dark cloud. Soon, the aurora lights gets brighter and brighter, until at 0:39…WOW! Watch this beautiful video of the aurora borealis shining through the clouds over a field in Russia.
The team of the E/V Nautilus, a deep water ocean explorer, spotted an unusual sea creature off the coast of California at a depth of 900 meters (2,950 feet) recently. The scientists who spotted it they are so excited and debate what it is. One researcher says, “It’s so cute!” Another says, “It looks like…
How would you feel about taking a journey based on your DNA? That’s what a group of 67 people from all kinds of backgrounds were asked, after they first shared what they believe to be their family history and their thoughts on their nationality and heritage. Some are quite opinionated about who they are and…
Sand dollars are one of the more fascinating creatures you can find on beaches around the world. Many of us are familiar with the white ones. They have a leaf like pattern etched on the top, sometimes are stained green with algae, and have a round hole in the centre of the bottom. But, these,…
If ever you have wondered what exactly is inside a wasp nest, then here’s a video that will answer the question. Dad Dan and son Lincoln wanted to know so they ordered a wasp nest from eBay (who would have thought you could do that?). The dad and son duo of the YouTube Channel “What’s…
Who knew science could be so fun and so wet? This dad took the opportunity to teach his young sons the physics principle of “constructive wave interference” using their backyard pool and a styrofoam board. The end results are a lot of fun to watch! Constructive wave interference is the phenomenon that occurs when two…
Do you use Q-tips to clean your ears? Well, if you do, you might be interested learning that there is a right way and a wrong way, according to William H. Shapiro, Doctor of Audiology. In fact, the clinical associate professor from NYU Langone says it’s not a good idea to use the cotton swabs…
Humans have evolved over the millennia and our bodies still carry some strange remnants of our simian, ancestral past. In this educational video, Vox explains how our human bodies carry vestigial structures that prove evolutionary history, from our protruding tendons to the shape of our outer ears. Check it out, it’s fascinating! Share this interesting…
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