Deep Sea Animals Use Headlights

Really. Ninety percent of deep sea marine life use some form of bioluminescence to either attract or repulse others, or to communicate. Sin...

Your Eyelashes Are Inhabited

Really. Tiny mites live in the roots of your eyelashes. They live head-down, feeding on secretions and dead skin debris. If you have oily sk...

Vegas Loser As Gambling Capital

Really. In 2002 China lifted a 40 year monopoly on casinos in Macau, which is poised to exceed $6 billion this year, overtaking Las Vegas ...

You Never Forget A Face

Not Really. But researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that you do remember faces better than other kinds of images. "Our re...

Your Veins Would Stretch 100,000 Miles

Really. An adult has 100,000 miles of blood vessels - enough to stretch around the equator four times. Most of the blood vessels in the hu...

Cleopatra Was a Dog

Really. Well, lets be more kind and say she didn't exactly look like Elizabeth Taylor. And, to be fair, her Roman lover Mark Anthony ...

Daily Starbursts Release More Energy Than Entire Universe

Really. First detected by a military satellite looking for Russian nuclear tests in space, gamma ray bursts occur somewhere in the univers...

Earth Target For Extraterrestrial Attack

Really. The Earth is the target of a 20 million ton asteroid named Apophis that's headed this way. and it'll be so close—closer than...

90% Of Fresh Water Is In Antarctic

Lasers beamed from space have detected lakes of water under 2,300 feet of compressed snow and ice below Antarctic ice. About 90 percent of t...

You Can Make Paper One Sided

Really. It's called a Mobius Strip . A normal piece of paper has two sides. You can prove that by coloring it two different colors. Als...

The Greenhouse Effect is Good

Really. Without it we would be dead. The greenhouse effect helps regulate the temperature of our planet. It is essential for life on Earth. ...

Planet Vaporized In Minutes

Really. The term 'astronomical' evokes images of billions and billions of stars millions of light-years away. But even on the immens...

Flying Saucers Headed For Earth

Really! Flying saucers may be headed for our skies, but they won't carry Martians. They'll carry Earthlings. One of the largest engi...

Space Garbage Explodes

Really. A recent Chinese anti-satellite weapon blew up one of their old weather satellites, and created more than 900 pieces of space garbag...

Japanese Girls Hate Valentines

Really. Thanks to a concentrated marketing effort, Valentine's Day has emerged in Japan as a day when women are obliged to give chocolat...

Rockets Need to Push Against Something

No. Rockets don't need to push against anything to propel themselves. Don't feel bad if you got this wrong. We heard one of the sta...

Some Men Can Nurse Babies

Really. It's generally kept quiet, but the truth is men have all the necessary equipment to produce milk—and on occasion actually do. In...

Kold Killer Krater

Really. Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact in Antarctica much larger and earlier than the one that killed the din...

One Million Second Camera Exposure

Really. Back in 2004 when the Hubble telescope took the immediately famous Ultra Deep Field image, it required over 800 21 minutes exposure...

Hospitals - A Leading Killer of Americans

Really. Infections contracted in hospitals kill more people annually than auto accidents and homicides combined. Yes, it's dangerous to ...

Stem Cells Do It All

Really. Stem cells can change into any mature cell type offering therapies with the potential to radically change the treatment of human di...

Eak, Drink And Be Mary

Really. What you eat and drink really won't affect your longevity that much, but being a woman helps. Many variables are involved in the...

Mini Cooper Races On Mars

Well, not exactly. But in 2010 NASA is sending the Mars Science Laboratory to Mars, and its size and shape is about the same as a Mini Coop...

Forgetful? Add A Memory Chip To Your Noggin

Really. Researchers are working on a computer chip that, implanted in your brain, could repair broken memory cicuits. At the turn of the cen...

Earth's neighbors Are Leaving

Really. Thanks to the expansion of the universe and a push from dark energy space is emptying out leaving our galaxy and its neighbors more...

Angels Make The Stars Move

That's foolishness. But when my 7 year-old grandson showed a little neighbor girl a satellite passing overhead her reaction was to say. ...

Bacteria Can Take A Lickin' And Keep On Tickin'

Really. A German team put a thin layer of microbes between two sheets of rock and then blew them up with explosives that generated a shock w...