Social media praises drinking hot water in the morning, but the benefits are questionable Every morning, millions of people start their day with a cup of coffee or tea, but...
Russians sell human gallstones, passing them off as animal ones Loose change in your pocket is usually worth exactly what’s printed on the coins. But sometimes people manage to sell...
Blood Moon on March 3: why you shouldn’t miss this eclipse and where it will be visible. On March 3, 2026, the only total lunar eclipse of the year will...
Dangerous ice! It is precisely at the end of winter that people fall through it most often. In January, ice seems reliable. The frost holds, the surface is dense, fishermen...
Meet Nala — the richest cat on the planet. Just ten years ago she was living in a shelter in Los Angeles, and today her fortune is estimated at 80–84...
Lunar rocks collected by astronauts in the 20th century held the answer to a half-century-old mystery When Apollo astronauts brought lunar rocks back to Earth, scientists discovered something strange in...
Your dinner and commute are heating the planet: real carbon footprint numbers. We rarely see the carbon dioxide we produce. It has no smell, doesn’t color the air, and leaves...
Thirty seconds under running water isn’t that long, but your gut will thank you Have you ever noticed that after washing dishes, plates are left with a barely perceptible slippery...
Typhoid vaccination at a rural school. Image source: wikimedia.org It might seem like typhoid fever is a disease from history textbooks — something from the era of poor sanitation and...
Australia’s strangest moth: what its creepy tentacles are hiding. Image source: nationalgeographic.ge On the internet it’s called the “Baphomet moth” — and at first glance it’s easy to see why....
