Few trees are more beautiful than cherry trees when in full bloom.
Although millions flock to see cherry blossoms around the world, the trees have a special resonance in Japan, where they are known as sakura.
Immortality is the dream of ancient mystics and futuristic transhumanists alike.
But for humans and most other animals on Earth, the promise of such longevity remains out of reach.
That is, unless you are a jellyfish known scientifically as Turritopsis dohrnii, nicknamed the “immortal jellyfish.”
May 1 used to be moving day for everyone in New York City.
The crowds at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center get crazy during the holidays.
Imagine the majority of the city's population packing the streets with beds and other personal belongings on a single day of the year.
If you were wowed by those glow-in-the-dark stars on your bedroom ceiling as a kid, you may need to book a trip to the Maldives.
The small nation of more than 1,000 islands in the Indian Ocean is home to at least one beach, on Mudhdhoo Island, that often glows in the dark and it’s a completely natural phenomenon.
Many of the Grand Canyon's visitors make a point of packing into the tourist stop known as Grand Canyon Village.
Far fewer realize there's a bona fide village nestled into Havasu Canyon some 3,000 feet below.
Ruth Wakefield was no cookie-cutter baker. In fact, she is widely credited with developing the world’s first recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
In 1937, Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, owned the popular Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
Researchers have long studied the connection between seasonal changes and youth growth patterns, with substantial evidence pointing to higher rates of growth among children in the Northern Hemisphere during the spring and summer months.
The American West is known for its wide open spaces, but nowhere is quite as wide open as the area around Glasgow, Montana.
Crunching some numbers back in 2018 in an effort to definitively define “the middle of nowhere,” The Washington Post found that a whopping 98% of Americans in the contiguous U.S. live within an hour of some kind of urban center (that is, a metropolitan area with at least 75,000 people).
They have fiery tempers. They are more susceptible to pain sometimes and hate going to the dentist.
On that last account, at least, there's a decent amount of research that might explain the anecdotal evidence.
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However, when the pair invented the crispy potato composites in the 1950s, they didn’t set out to change snack food history.
Instead, their potato creation came from a quest to reduce the amount of food waste produced at their frozen foods plant.
The Earth has been around for a while, about one-third as long as the universe itself. By comparison, Homo sapiens are the new kids on the block.
Earth’s story began at the outset of the Hadean eon, about 4.6 billion years ago. It took 600 million years just for the Earth’s crust to take shape.
The mile-deep gorge is the centerpiece of such an expansive view that it can’t all be seen at once.
At 277 miles long and up to 18 miles wide, the Grand Canyon is so large, it creates its own weather. In fact, getting a view from its two most popular rims (aka tops) requires nearly five hours of travel time.
In fact, the story of the dinosaurs didn’t even end on that unfortunate spring day 65 million years ago, because dinosaurs still live among us. We just call them birds.
Because of the incredibly advanced craftsmanship of ancient Rome’s architects, as well as their remarkably long-lasting building materials, many of the ancient empire’s most marvelous construction projects can still be seen by millions of tourists today.
Some 6 million people visit the Colosseum each year alone. However, the most amazing engineering achievement might be Rome’s eye-catching aqueducts, one of which still supplies Rome with water millennia after it was built.
The Appalachian Mountains aren’t the world’s largest mountains.
And though they stretch from Canada to Alabama, they aren’t even the world’s longest (that honor goes to the mid-ocean ridge, a chain 40,389 miles long).
The brothers behind your favorite frozen waffles took a while to iron out the details of their signature product.
Working in their parents’ basement in San Jose, California, in the early 1930s, Frank, Anthony, and Sam Dorsa first whipped up their own brand of mayonnaise.
Humans have a few biological advantages compared to other species. The most obvious is our big brains, which have empowered us to become the dominant species on Earth.
But another feature that is often overlooked is our chins — yes, we’re the only animals on Earth with true chins.
By all accounts, Baber’s call was much like millions made from cellphones every day — except that the renowned British climber was standing on the summit of Mount Everest.
But no country in South America — or the world, for that matter — compares to Colombia. With around 1,900 bird species within its borders, the country hosts nearly 20% of all avian species in the world, which is more than any other nation.
Our seas are home to the world’s longest mountain chain, its deepest trenches, and other impressive natural structures that boggle the mind.
The ocean is even home to its own underwater lakes and rivers. When seawater seeps up from the seafloor, it mixes with the salt layers above and creates a depression in the seabed, where this heavy, dense, and briny mixture rests.
