From strange animal abilities to mind-bending cosmic facts, these 14 science tidbits might sound like nonsense, but they’re backed by real science. Get ready to have your mind blown! 1.

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

In science, an idea can be a theory and a fact at the same time. Stephen J. Gould put this well: In the American vernacular, “theory” often means “imperfect fact”—part of a hierarchy of ...

When a laser is aimed into flowing water, it can get “trapped” because of a phenomenon called total internal reflection. Some animals, like sea turtles and salmon, can sense the Earth’s ...

Established as Graduate Department of Metallurgy in 1954-1955 Became first “Department of Materials Science” in the world in 1958 Highly ranked graduate (#2 in US) and undergraduate programs (#4 in US ...

Despite its diverse origin stories, a wildlife expert with Texas A&M AgriLife Research said there is a simple explanation to chupacabra sightings—one far more entrenched in science than the ...

Released roughly once a week since April, each episode centers on a science or technology concept from a popular sci-fi show or movie. The hosts spend most of 45 minutes pondering how well each ...

These diverse stories of traveling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to climate science, change the way we see the nature of facts. Facts are far from the ...