Human History Ends At Midnight

Not really. But if Earth's history was placed on a calendar with each day representing about 10 million years, human history so far woul...

You Can See Satellites In Space

Really. Everyone knows you can see the Moon from Earth--Luna is a satellite, after all. And with a small telescope you can see the moons of...

Oceans' Salt Would Bury the Continents

Really. If the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet...

Painting Can Protect Your Health

Really. A new " antimicrobial paint " developed at MIT can kill influenza viruses that land on surfaces coated with it, potential...

Mac Computers Are For the Elderly

Wrong, wrong, WRONG ! A recent survey announced that more than half of the people who are using Mac computers are "elderly people, of...

Your Holidays Are Numbered

Really. Every year retailers and industry focus on the year-end buying spree and try to project your holiday numbers. Here are some for 2006...

First Christmas Day Was In 354

Really, the first time Christmas Day appeared on a calendar was in the Calendar of Filocalus which was part of a 4th century illuminated ma...

Santa Comes From Turkey

Really, St. Nick was born around 245CE near Patara, Turkey, an important Byzantine port. When his father died, leaving him a great fortune, ...

Bugger All

Sometimes there are discoveries on the Web that don't necessarily make you say, "Wow! Really?" but nevertheless make you stop ...

Obesity Might Be Contagious

Really. A "fat virus," similar to Flu virus might account for some 30% of the world's obesity problem, according to new resea...

A Full Moon Causes Rain

Really. The moon affects how much it rains. Several independent studies by meteorologists show that the moon's phases affect the weath...

Telescope can see 25¢ 60 miles away

Really, Japan has developed a new optics system for the country’s Subaru telescope located on the extinct Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. With ...

You Might Drink Some Comet Today

Really. Icy rocks from space might have provided the Earth with large portion of its water. The Earth is believed to have formed hot and dry...

Wright Brothers Fake Flight

Really. While the Wright brothers first powered flight occurred on this date in 1903, it was largely ignored. Back home, some interest devel...

99% of all organisms that ever existed are extinct

Really, 99% of all organisms that have existed are now extinct and about 2400 species disappear daily . Most species exist 2 to 5 million ye...

Private Space Investment Twice Governments

Really! Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine reports in their December 11 issue that private spending on space-related activities ...

Meteorites And New Yorkers Are Blood Brothers

All elements heavier than helium were made in the stars , including carbon which is the foundation of life on this planet. According to Ne...

Other Galaxies Are Closer Than You Think

Really, if our galaxy were the size of a dime, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) would be about the size of a quarter and just 20 inches away. Pull...

Falling to the Earth's Center Would Take Over a Day

Really. If you can picture a skydiver "free-falling" past the Earth's surface it would take well over 24 hours to reach the ce...

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It's time to vote for your favorite science blog. We're too new to be on the list, but thanks for thinking of us, anyway. But you ca...

Moon Dirt Could Provide Unlimited Energy

Really. Scientists say there's a substance on the moon that could power the world for thousands of years. The equivalent of a single sp...

First Color Photo Was Taken Just After WWI

Not Really! The first color photo was taken during the same year the Civil War began -- 1861! It was taken by the physicist James Clerk Ma...

A Full Moon Is Smaller Near The Horizon

Really, that big full moon you saw rising or setting a few days ago was, in fact, smaller than it was a few hours earlier when it was high ...

You Can Take A Walk In Space

Really...if you're willing to use a scale model here on Earth you could walk to the (former) planet Pluto, and visit all the other plane...

Panda Porn Boosts Libido

Yes, really. Since 2002 China has been trying to arouse its captive pandas ' inner-bear by exposing them to videos of wild panda, um...b...

Dust Can Stop A Hurricane

Really. Experts believe that Saharan dust storms stop hurricane development. Meteorologists predicted that warmer oceans temperatures would ...

Most Dangerous Animal Weighs Less Than a Feather

Really. The most dangerous animal in the world is the mosquito. Its bite transmits malaria killing over one million people each year. In ...

A Record: Surfer Rode One Wave Over An Hour

Really! Steve King surfed 7.6 miles in 1 hour and 17 minutes on one wave! In a wonderful book entitled The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Cro...

You Have Relatives Living In Africa

Really, you do. While our cultures may divide us, our DNA demonstrates the fact that we are all descended from a small group of humans who l...

Car Depreciation Costs You More Than Gas

Really. Your car will cost you about $4000 a year for depreciation over 5 years. Even at $3 a gallon, you'll only spend about $1800 a ye...

Dinosaurs Disappeared Today

Really. If Earth's history was placed on a calendar with each day representing about 10 million years, dinosaurs became extinct on Decem...

There Are Negative Calorie Foods

Really. There are foods that take more calories to eat than they provide, at least if you use the term food loosely. Celery, is a good exam...

Hot Drinks Make You Colder

Really! Drinking a thermos of hot coffee when you're out in the cold may make you feel warmer because it will increase blood flow to you...

Dog-Sized Elephants Basked in the Italian Sun

Really. Pygmy Elephants about the height of a Great Dane lived on Mediterranean Islands not too long ago. Unlike dinosaurs who died out hun...

Cellphones eat chips

Really! Over half of the integrated chips (ICs) being manufactured are going into cell phones. By the end of next year over 3 billion subsc...

The Sky Is Falling

No the sky isn't falling, that's foolishness. But it is interesting to consider how people used to think about the heavens. In bibli...

Careful! You could trip over a piece of Mars today

Really. Just a few deliberate searches have found 40 pieces of the Red Planet so far. But scientists are convinced that thousands are scatt...

Your Sun is Losing Weight

Really. The Sun is the fatso of our solar system representing 99.8% of the mass, but it's losing 5 million tons every second ! The Earth...

Fish Is The Most Popular Thanksgiving Meal

Just kidding, that's foolishness! Of course turkey is the most popular Thanksgiving meal. It is in Canada too, although when they borrow...

One Cubic Yard of Ocean Weighs More Than A VW

Really. If you ever got walloped by a wave you know they pack a punch. Here's why. Water weighs 64 pounds per cubic foot and there are 2...

Earth's Core is Hotter Than the Sun

Really! The Earth's core is hotter than the outer layer of the Sun. The Sun's huge boiling convection cells , in the outer visible ...

The vacuum of space doesn't suck, it blows

Really. When you suck on the end of a straw, a slight vacuum is created inside so you can get those last few drops from the bottom of a mil...

Rice-size bacteria would outweigh the Earth

Really. There are so many bacteria on earth, if they weighed even 1/10th as much as a grain of rice they would outweigh the Earth itself! Th...

Deep space is the coldest place in the universe

Not really. The coldest place in the universe is in a cozy laboratory right here on Earth. Remember, temperature is a measure of motion. If...

Our planet is misnamed, should be Water not Earth

Really. Barely 30% of our planet is dry land, and over 70% is water. We've misnamed it. Because we're terrestrial beasts, and rather...

Atomic nucleus weighs as much as a stadium

Really! If an atom was the size of a stadium the nucleus would be the size of a pea and it would weigh as much as the stadium. Atoms are abo...