How Bill Gates And Paul Allen Were Able To Work In A University Lab As High Schoolers
Bill Gates and Paul Allen famously created Microsoft. Here's how the two tech pioneers were able to work in a university lab as high schoolers.
Read MoreBill Gates and Paul Allen famously created Microsoft. Here's how the two tech pioneers were able to work in a university lab as high schoolers.
Read MoreIn a stunning paper from Nature Neuroscience, a new set of researchers confirms what many scientists have feared for years. Let's take a look.
Read MoreWhile lower blood pressure may be good for health, low barometric pressure over the ocean is not so good. Here's barometric pressure in hurricanes explained.
Read MoreSome make light of how certain areas seem to be especially prone to dramatic weather events. In Tampa's case, geography plays a huge part in its storm risk.
Read MoreToday, we identify and remember various significant storm activities by naming them -- Hurricane Katrina, for one -- but a 1921 hurricane lacks its own name.
Read MoreAn incoming natural disaster like a hurricane doesn't necessarily mean you have to be caught flat-footed, especially when it comes to your pets.
Read MoreCleanliness is next to godliness, or so the saying goes. It's usually pronounced regarding humans and soap, but wild creatures also clean themselves.
Read MoreResearchers are uncovering another very unusual way mountains can form, and this strange, liquid process appears to be responsible for the Andes.
Read MoreNASA just sent a "box-shaped" spacecraft right into an itty-bitty, 160-meter-long (about 530 feet) asteroid moonlet named Dimorphos. Here's what happened.
Read MoreSomething there is in a human that reacts positively to the very young, even of another species. So why do people toss baby birds off cliffs?
Read MoreMarie Curie's accomplishments live on in the science world, but the same danger that led to her death still haunts her work and will for 1,500 years.
Read MoreEvolution may have given Homo sapiens two eyes, but over the millennia, philosophers, mystics and clerics have longed for the development of a third.
Read MoreLand-based prehistoric life seems to get the really big-budget movie treatment, but megalodon has attracted some scientific attention of its own lately.
Read MoreTurtles and tortoises are very similar animals often considered to be interchangeable. Here's the real difference between turtles and tortoises.
Read MoreAstronauts aren't typically known for their practical jokes, but one astronaut once pranked everyone aboard a space shuttle with a fake cockroach.
Read MoreFast radio bursts, observed by a telescope in China over the course of a couple of months in 2021, may disprove what little we know about the space phenomenon.
Read MoreThe massive, majestic Mississippi River has been inspiring artists and businesses for generations. Certainly it's big and it's wide, but how fast is it?
Read MoreIn 1981, NFL fans who tuned into the Bengals-Chargers game in January witnessed the coldest football game in the sports league's history.
Read MoreIt's a frequent storytelling device -- someone on the verge of death re-experiences important moments in their life, "flashing" before their eyes. Really?
Read MoreDepending on your source, it sometimes feels like most of the natural world is conspiring to kill you, with toxicity around every corner. Is there a difference?
Read MoreStart digging in the yard -- maybe a new garden, or beginning a building project -- there's no telling what you might find. Or what size it might be.
Read MoreNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured near-infrared images of Neptune, which provide a new view of the eighth planet from the sun. Check it out.
Read MoreScientists' estimation of the size of the ant population shouldn't actually be a surprise at all, because it's clear they are pretty ubiquitous worldwide.
Read MoreNASA's new Artemis mission could be the first opportunity for humans to step foot on the Moon since 1969. Are we entering the next " giant leap for mankind"?
Read MoreNASA is working on a historic test to protect the Earth from asteroids -- that is if one is ever a threat to life on Earth. Here's a look inside.
Read MoreThere are good ideas and then there are not-so-good ideas. Asking the question "How can I make this better?" is good, unless it just isn't.
Read MoreHere are a few places that could become too hot for humans to inhabit if nothing is done to reverse the trend of climate change. Some are closer than you think.
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