In today’s Lightning Round video, we’re going to talk about a recently announced ammonia engine Toyota’s been working on, along with stories about nutritional depletion...
Author - Joe Scott
Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how...
When the Spanish Conquistadors encountered the mighty Inca empire, they found thousands of knotted-up ropes called quipus. Encoded in these quipus were tax records...
Rings around planetary bodies is surprisingly common. So why doesn’t the Earth have rings? Today we take a look at how rings form, what kind of rings Earth could have...
In today’s Lightning Round video, we look at the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, which is predicted to find rogue planets through a process called “microlensing.”...
History is filled with stories of giants, from Goliath in the Bible to the giants of Patagonia, which Magellan and other explorers reported finding in the 1500s. Most of...
Over here in the US, we catch a lot of grief for having never switched to the metric system, but the fact of the matter is, we tried several times. So today let’s talk...
Perhaps no other plant is as synonymous with the American West as the tumbleweed. But they’re surprisingly new to North America, in fact, they’re an invasive species...
The smartphone is just over 15 years old, and 70% of people on the planet own one. But there’s reason to believe their days are numbered. Where do smartphones go from...
On Christmas Eve, 1945, the small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia was stunned by a fire at the house of George Sodder, the owner of a local trucking company. Five of...