What Actually Happens After You Swallow Chewing Gum?
According to Healthline, you may not be able to digest chewing gum, but it doesn't stick to your intestines as easily as it does to the bottom of your shoe.
Read MoreAccording to Healthline, you may not be able to digest chewing gum, but it doesn't stick to your intestines as easily as it does to the bottom of your shoe.
Read MoreThere are lot of factors that contribute to the state of a body ten years in a coffin, and every human body undergoes the same stages of decay.
Read MoreGravity on the space station is more or less the same as the gravity at your local Trader Joe's. In fact, gravity on the ISS is still 90 percent that of Earth.
Read MoreWhile initially scheduled for sometime in the 1980s, it appears the soonest humans will set foot on Mars will be 2026.
Read MoreHere are the wildest extinct prehistoric creatures that aren't dinosaurs. It's hard to imagine how some of these animals even worked at all.
Read MoreAstronauts have the same basic needs up in space as they do anywhere else in the solar system, and microgravity makes their morning routine a bit more tedious.
Read MoreYou might have noticed how unevenly distributed the human species is. Perhaps this made you wonder: Where is the most densely-packed region in the world?
Read MoreWe all know that asteroids are looming out there in space, just waiting for our orbits to align so they can take us out just like they did the dinosaurs.
Read MoreWe know none of us is getting out of here alive, so it only makes sense to ponder the inevitable: What happens to our bodies after we die?
Read MoreAs we enter 2021, the world faces no shortage of challenges, from climate change to political instability, but there are also opportunities on the horizon.
Read MoreSome modern birds have been known to attack people, often due to protecting nests and their young or scavenging for food.
Read MoreAll manner of objects move through the heavens and, more specifically, through our solar system. Some make regular appearances, like Halley's Comet.
Read MoreHow comets form has long been subject to scientific studies, and how comets are created is still something we're still learning.
Read MoreAstronauts and other experts in the astronomy field fully expected human Mars colonies to exist by now.
Read MoreThe next projected appearance of arguably the world's most famous short-period comet (Be honest: Can you name any others?) is set for July 28, 2061.
Read MoreFrom radiation illness to widespread power outages, solar storms bring invisible destruction from above. The worst part? We never know when the next might hit.
Read MoreMillikan was very much an engineer whose Nobel Prize derived from two separate contributions: the "oil drop experiment" and the "photoelectric experiment."
Read MoreWho among us hasn't looked at photographs of the ethereal, sweeping North Pole and wondered what it's like to be there? What would it ... smell like?
Read More"Hurricane" is the story of Rubin Carter, a middleweight boxer who, at 30 years old and at the height of his career, was wrongly convicted of a triple homicide.
Read MoreThe inability to sweat might (at first) sound almost ideal. People who can't perspire, however, have their own very specific challenges, including heatstroke.
Read MoreEveryone is familiar with the smell of rotting fish, right? Wrong; it turns out the experience of getting a noseful of spoiled seafood is not quite universal.
Read MoreLife always finds a way. And that's exactly what happened when scientists tried to reproduce Russian sturgeon eggs through gynogenesis, using paddlefish sperm.
Read MoreUnless you're a true space nerd, there's a good chance you've never even heard of Nancy Grace Roman -- the "Mother" of the Hubble telescope.
Read MoreThe story of exploding lakes, or a limnic eruption, is true though rare with only two recording incidents in history, both in Cameroon.
Read MoreThat's right: When NASA couldn't make a tortilla that would last up to six months, it turned to fast food vendor Taco Bell for help.
Read MoreCracking your neck is incredibly satisfying and feels good afterward, so what's the problem, right? Not so fast.
Read MoreThe sun may disappear from view at the North Pole starting on September 25, but that doesn't mean that total darkness sets in.
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