Look, the truth is, everyone has knowledge gaps. Some of them might be super niche. Others might be more general and ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

Did you know that YouTube adds over 64 new ‘Did You Know?’-type videos to its archives every minute? Ok, so that number may be completely made up, but the whole trend of cramming as many fun science ...

Science reveals bizarre truths. Bananas are slightly radioactive. Stomachs digest themselves. Earth has more trees than stars. A teaspoon of neutron star weighs billions of tons. One can survive ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

Monica Cull is a Digital Editor/Writer for Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles focusing on animal sciences, ancient humans, national parks, and health trends. View Full Profile. Take this ...

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide variety ...