Draw a line from Miami to Bermuda, another from Bermuda to Puerto Rico, and a third back toward Florida, and you have the rough outline of one of the most famous imaginary places on Earth. The Bermuda Triangle has been blamed for ships disa...
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Somewhere on Earth, while you read this sentence, babies are being born and people are dying. Others are crossing national borders, changing the population of one country without changing th...
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When sponge divers found an ancient shipwreck off the small Greek island of Antikythera around 1900, they brought up the kinds of objects archaeologists expected from a wealthy vessel of the...
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Listen to some of NASA's most famous recordings from the outer Solar System and space does not sound silent at all. Jupiter whistles, crackles and roars. Saturn produces eerie rising tones....
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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Why Do We See Colors the Way We Do? Why is the sky blue, grass green, or a ripe apple red? These may sound like simple questions, but they open the door to a much deeper mystery: how and...
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The pineal gland, also known as the epiphysis, is a small pinecone-shaped endocrine gland located in the central part of the brain.
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How are hurricane categories determined? Hurricane categories are determined based on wind strength. The Saffir-Simpson scale is the most commonly used.
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