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...

96% of the Universe is missing

Really! Astronomers first noticed part of the universe was missing in the '30s when they looked at the movement of a cluster of galaxies...

You lose weight when you're attracted to someone

Really, it's true. You'd need a very accurate scale to see the weight loss, but two people standing close together weigh slightly le...

A 5,000 mile wide storm is raging!

Really. There's a violent storm blowing that's twice as wide as the U.S. and packing winds almost two-times greater than the stronge...

Los Angeles Is Moving To San Francisco

Really! The San Andreas fault , which runs roughly north-south, is slipping, causing Los Angeles on the Pacific tectonic plate to move towa...

Sun Burp Blows Away Nuclear Arsenal

Really! Violent eruptions from our local star are known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs, and just one produces 100 times more energy than...

Earth’s middle shrinks and grows

Really. Earth may look perfectly spherical from space, like a giant marble, but it actually isn't! Instead, our planet is slightly wider...

Your DNA would reach the moon

Foolishness! Your DNA would actually stretch to the sun and back about 4 times! DNA is a fine, spirally coiled thread in the nucleus of eve...

You don't have the right to vote

Really, you don't. At least not a constitutional right. The Constitution of the United States was ratified in 1789, but it doesn't ...

Mt. Everest is not the tallest mountain

Really. Let's take an imaginary trip to Nepal. There's Mt. Everest over there. Lets mentally pick it up and fly it halfway around...

Old plane was faster than a speeding bullet

Fact. The word's fastest and highest flying airplane, the US Air Force's SR-71 first flew in 1964, and hasn't been matched sin...

Elephant seals breathe with their spleen

Yup, really. By storing oxygen in their spleen , elephant seals can dive to a depth of more than a mile and stay below for an hour or longe...

Lightning strikes once a minute

Not really, in the U.S. alone it averages once each second! There’s a network of antennas that detects and counts each lightning flash ...

On Mercury you'd get 2 years older every day

Really! Here's why. First, Mercury's year, the time it takes to make one trip around the Sun, is short. As the great astronomer Joh...

You can see Earth from 1 billion miles away

Really! The NASA/JPL/ESA Cassini orbiter, 1.3 million miles above Saturn, had an opportunity on September 16th to look back toward home whe...

The Sun is Male

Naw, that's foolishness. As far back in recorded history as you care to go, you'll find people who worshiped the sun as a male god o...