Science is amazing, fascinating, and, if we’re being honest, sometimes absolutely terrifying. While we usually hear about cool breakthroughs and feel-good discoveries, there’s a darker side of science ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

Reality is stranger than fiction—and science proves it every single day. While we navigate our daily lives thinking we understand the world around us, the universe quietly operates according to rules ...

(NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington) In case you missed it, last week the ScienceAlert team shared their favorite science facts for you to use ...

Science is full of weird and wacky things. From the way our bodies work to the way that light moves through space, there's a lot that can surprise and intrigue us. Now, a bunch of users on Reddit have ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

After years of getting your emails and phone calls, we know that SciFri listeners are in the 99th percentile when it comes to nerdy knowledge. We’re putting your fact retention skills to the test with ...

Even if you weren’t someone who got excited about science class in school, now—as an adult—it’s hard not to be amazed by science facts. Seriously, just stop for a minute and think about what both the ...