I recently saw an article about the “most expensive things on Earth.” The item that topped the list was antimatter. It had an estimated price tag of $59.8 trillion per gram! Most people know what matter is—it makes up everything […]
If you enjoy music and have a history of listening to pop songs, you already can listen to a song and identify which decade it was released because of the sound and style. It’s interesting to learn that a new […]
In 2016, I was able to travel to Australia for the first time. One of the highlights of my trip was to hold an adorable koala named Barney. This happened at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Queensland. The Lone […]
Did you know that the Internet as we know it depends on 22 ships to function? It likely wouldn’t occur to most people that there are fiber-optic cables running through our oceans all around the world. In fact, there are […]
The Guinness Book of World Records has announced that the hottest pepper in the world is now Pepper X and no longer the Carolina Reaper as of Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Ed Currie, a pepper expert from South Carolina has […]
A first of its kind housing project with 3D homes has begun this month to sell them near Austin, Texas. This is the first large-scale 3D-printed housing development project in the United States. There are around 100 3D printed homes […]
Florida manatees already are listed federally as a threatened species, but recently things have gotten direr for many of them. Many manatees do not have enough food to eat and are starving. Their natural food of seagrass is being destroyed […]
Over twenty years ago NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team set out to build “the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space…” according to Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. He believes […]
The Endurance has been found! The wooden ship was found about four miles from where Ernest Shackleton recorded that it sank in 1915. It is 10,000 feet below the surface in the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica’s northern coast. The […]
We didn’t see that coming! Today we found out that the Endurance 22’s ship, the Agulhas, got stuck in the ice while searching for Shackleton’s famous ship in Antarctica. Just a few weeks ago a team of adventurers and scientists, […]