Did you hear the legend that blonds will die out in just a couple hundred years? I did. It turns out that everyone has — because the legend has been around for a couple hundred years. Here's why blonds have spent centuries on the endangered species list.
In October 2012, Felix Baumgartner leapt from a balloon floating 24-miles high and fell to Earth, breaking the sound barrier on the way down. Now, newly released footage shows in unprecedented detail what Baumgartner saw on his record-breaking descent.
We were all pleasantly surprised
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Imagine taking the distance that light travels in an entire year. Now turn that distance into a cube, each side one light-year across. How much "stuff" would be in there? And how empty would it be? It all depends on where you put your massive cube.
When Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Plus, there's a ton of rumors about the plot of Days of Future Past, including one involving parallel realities. And while Billy Dee Williams is up for Star Wars Episode VII, it looks like the Benedict Cumberbatch rumors can be put to rest. Chris Evans describes how Captain America and the Falcon meet in The Winter Soldier. Spoilers now!
Centuries
ago, scientists relied on paintings and
illustrations of animals to learn more about their anatomy. Today, that biology-art
bond is as strong as ever. This is Carly Tribull, a PhD student studying the evolution of parasitic wasps
Once whales invented their own version of nanotechnology, the whole question of which mammal species would dominate the ocean became moot.
When millions of people from the future arrive in the present day, seeking asylum, a small rural community is overwhelmed. That's the incredibly cool concept of Refugees, a new show BBC Worldwide is developing with Spanish company Astresmedia.
We can debate all day about whether the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is going to be awesome. But there is no argument to be had about these customized Donatello sneakers. They will make you want to yell cowabunga!
What makes a reboot a reboot, and a retcon a retcon — and what makes a show one, and not the other?
A senior American spy chief has released his assessment of the most troubling threats facing the US — a list that includes terrorism, hackers, WMD proliferation, pandemics, extreme weather events — and the militarization of space.
Sometimes a building is like an architectural alien. The bizarrely-shaped museums in these photographs are so different from the city around them that it's as if they erupted out of a dimensional doorway from another universe.
In The Shack, the father of a murdered daughter is summoned via letter from God back to the spot where the terrible deed occurred. And now it's going to be a movie — but first, some questions.
This video from 2012 has been circulating again online, and there are still no explanations for it. It shows a field in England, covered by a mysterious web.
Tremble at the sight of this huge sound horn inside the Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF). It's an ESA-built device that subjects satellites to the same levels of noise produced by rockets as they take off and fly through the atmosphere.
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