What causes hallucinations?
Adults Science
A condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome can cause blind patients to hallucinate scenes in vivid color.
What Would It Take For Earth To Explode?
Adults Science
The Death Star could destroy a planet, but what are some realistic ways it could happen.
How Small Is An Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.
Adults Science
Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible - how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.
Why It's Almost Impossible to Score a Corner Kick Goal in Soccer / Football
Adults Science
The "gol olimpico" or "Olympic goal" - an unassisted corner kick bent into goal - is one of the rarest in soccer. WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez straps on his shin-guards to explore the shot's perfect mix of soccer science and skill.
What Would Happen If You Were Allergic To Water?
Adults Science
Water seems harmless, right?
What's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
Adults Science
The hottest and coldest temperatures in our universe are rarely witnessed, but in these rare spots, our understanding of physics is challenged. Weird things happen at extreme hot and absolute cold.
What If You Only Drank Energy Drinks?
Adults Science
What happens when you put too much caffeine in your body?
What If We Could Teleport?
Adults Science
Could teleportation ever be possible?
How Much Is Your Body Worth?
Adults Science
We break down your value piece by piece!
Are naked mole rats the strangest mammals?
Adults Science
What mammal has the social life of an insect, the cold-bloodedness of a reptile, and the metabolism of a plant?
The Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
Adults Science
Why is Earth is a blue planet? Because it's covered in water! Where did Earth's water come from?
How Long Can We Live?
Adults Science
The human lifespan might be limited, in part, because natural selection just stops working late in life.
Why do we sweat? - John Murnan
Adults Science
There are a number of scenarios that can make us sweat-including exercise, eating spicy foods, and nervousness.
Primitive Technology: Blower and charcoal
Adults Science
I made a blower and some charcoal at the new area in order to create higher temperatures in for advancing my material technology.
Do You Hear "Yanny" or "Laurel"? (SOLVED with SCIENCE)
Adults Science
Yanny vs. Laurel audio illusion solved! PHEW FINALLY!
How to stay calm under pressure
Adults Science
Your favorite athlete closes in for a win; the crowd holds its breath, and at the crucial moment ... she misses the shot.
Are We All Related?
Adults Science
In part 3 of our special series on human ancestry, we investigate how closely related we all really are.
Could Playing Music DRASTICALLY Change Your Brain?
Adults Science
You might've heard that playing an instrument makes you smarter. Is this true?
What Is A Paradox?
Adults Science
A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth - The Bacteriophage
Adults Science
A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don't even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage.
Why Do We Itch?
Adults Science
It's one of the most annoying sensations our bodies can feel, but does anything feel better than when you scratch an itch? Ok, maybe *some* things. But itching and scratching are up there. How does this weird sensation work? And what is itching for?