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Katherine G. Johnson (far right) and colleagues in 1970’s There are many pioneers of science, but the first moon landing…

The universe is a strange place. The more astronomers search the stars with greater and greater accuracy, the more bizarre…

Did you know a surprising number of actors are actually true geniuses? The normal range for an IQ test is…

I don’t know about you, but YouTube is an enormous sucking black hole of time-wasting for me. Once I watch…

Source: YouTube Do time travelers exist? If they exist, how do we find them? Those are the questions people have…

Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the new technology out there. Space-age inventions and innovations have been a…

Source: YouTube When it comes to long stretches of time, humans have a hard time visualizing it. A thousand years,…

Earth is pretty amazing with a lot of incredible stuff to learn. Here’s a pretty neat graphic on space, Earth,…

After watching Iron Man 2 enough times, a Redditor nicknamed Blueintegral discovered a startling sign of the amount of detail that went…

Man of Steel (2013) UBC linguistics professor Christine Schreyer (Source) Learn more about UBC linguistics professor Christine Schreyer who developed…

Source: BBC It’s never easy to predict the future with any accuracy, but there are a few things we know…

From The Fifth Element, Source: Wikipedia Flying cars have been a dream of science fiction for decades. It seems like…

Iron Man (2008) Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) with Exoskeleton Arm Move over Tony Stark. Students at the University of…

Mankind is not short of hubris. Scientists have moved mountains, built islands, and split the atom. At times, scientists have…

Source: Hubblesite.org Being in the Universe is kind of like fish in a fish tank; you don’t appreciate it because…

The pterodactyl is a dinosaur. Gravity pulls things downward. A lot of these “facts” related to science are told at…

Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is a staple in comic book lore, and the crystalline structure introduced in the original Superman…

Jurassic Park brought us the dream of bringing our favorite dinosaurs back from the dead through genetic engineering. Sadly, that…

There’s this new thing that I’d never heard about called “ransomware.” Basically, it’s a lot like a virus, except instead…

There are action figures for everything you can imagine. Of course, there are action figures for cartoon characters, but also…

Recently, a team of scientists announced that they had not only found genetic evidence of Bigfoot, but had analyzed it…

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – Bane (Tom Hardy) picks up Batman (Christian Bale) [Warning: This article has spoilers for…

You may have heard a lot of talk about the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, the so-called “God particle.”…

What if Earth had rings like Saturn? Animator Roy Prol created this video to illustrate the concept, as well as…

There have been some amazing breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology. Fabrication with laser printers has traditionally taken hours or…

H is for Hubble Space Telescope, today’s post for the A-Z Blogging Challenge. It seems like everyone with even a…

Okay, there’s been a lot of buzz around the Internet about a group who calculated the cost of building the…

The X-Prize Foundation announced a new prize to create a real-life version of Star Trek’s famous medical tricorder. The implications…

One of my favorite Futurama episodes was about Fry getting an EyePhone (get it?) that allowed him to walk around…

On Thursday, NASA came one step closer to creating its own real-life Fantastic Four, which is what we all really…