If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...

Some animals are built for speed. The cheetah, for example, can reach speeds of up to 120 km/h. That's faster than most cars on city roads. The peregrine falcon dives through the air at over 300 km/h.

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the ...

At a farm in Valrico, Florida, a woman is filming while two adorable baby Nigerian dwarf goats decide her and her husband make excellent climbing structures. One is balancing on her shoulders. One is ...

After wrapping up her morning basketball practice, Haley Malia spotted something unexpected, a small deer wandering nearby. With one hand in her pocket and the other holding her phone, she filmed the ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Rog Hanson emerges from the coastal waters, pulls a diving regulator out of his mouth and pushes a scuba mask down around his neck. “Did you see her?” he says. “Did you see Bathsheba?” On this quiet ...

Brown dwarfs: too small to be stars, too big to be planets. Only discovered in the 1990s, these in-between cosmic objects aren’t big enough to burn as hot and bright as a true star, instead usually ...

OpenAI was an artificial intelligence research lab little known outside of Silicon Valley before ChatGPT debuted in November 2022. Three years later, OpenAI has become synonymous with the AI boom, ...

Four years ago, a Reddit user went on r/MandelaEffect and asked a simple question: ‘Anyone else remember the seahorse emoji?’ And people did. ‘Light Orange Seahorse facing left. Yes,’ one said.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. OTTAWA, Ontario — The Marineland park near Niagara Falls has asked the Canadian government for emergency funding ...