Science is amazing, fascinating, and, if we’re being honest, sometimes absolutely terrifying. While we usually hear about cool breakthroughs and feel-good discoveries, there’s a darker side of science ...

Something is disrupting the formation of vitamin B at the lowest levels of the marine food chain. This has a knock on effect ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

This image shows our fragile planet Earth, with clouds, ocean, land masses, and the border between the atmosphere and space visible. The most remarkable fact about the Universe is that is can be ...