Fun fact: If you counted every living cell in your body tonight, a surprising number of them wouldn’t actually be you. That sentence alone unsettles people. It should. The idea that your body has more microbial cells than human cells has floated around for years, often repeated like a biological shock line. Modern science is …
Fun fact: if humans truly used only 10% of their brains, neurologists would notice massive “dead zones” on brain scans—and they simply don’t exist. The idea that we use just a tiny fraction of our brain has become one of the most stubborn scientific myths of modern life. It shows up in school corridors, motivational …
Fun fact: A single particle of light can store more information than dozens of classical computers—if you let it exist in more than two states. Light in 37 Dimensions: When Physics Breaks Our Intuition sounds like the opening line of speculative fiction, but it is very much a real scientific result. Recently, physicists demonstrated that …
Fun fact: Earth regularly produces lightning above storms that shoots upward into space—but almost no human ever sees it. When the Sky Turned Red: Lightning We Weren’t Meant to See is not a headline from science fiction, even though it sounds like one. In October 2025, the skies above New Zealand briefly revealed a phenomenon …
Fun fact: Some of the largest structures in the universe are completely invisible—until you tune in to radio waves. That unsettling idea sits at the centre of The Universe Just Drew a Circle We Can’t Explain, a story that feels less like a discovery and more like a quiet provocation. Astronomers have detected the most …
Fun fact: Not all planets are round—some are stretched so violently by gravity that they resemble lemons drifting through space. That strange truth sits at the heart of A Lemon-Shaped Planet Is Rethinking What Worlds Can Be, a story that feels less like astronomy and more like a quiet insult to our assumptions. Somewhere far …
Fun fact: More than 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible and has never been observed by our eyes or by telescopes as we know them. That’s the bewildering heart of The Mystery of Dark Matter That Still Defies Science. When astronomers talk about the “cosmic dark side,” they aren’t being dramatic—they …
Fun fact: Long before factories, petrol, or batteries existed, early humans were already carrying traces of lead inside their bodies—locked forever in their teeth. That unsettling truth sits at the heart of Ancient Lead Exposure in Early Humans. Fossil teeth from ancient hominids suggest that lead exposure was not a modern accident but an ancient …
Fun fact: The largest predators that ever lived on Earth were not dinosaurs on land—but monsters that ruled ancient oceans long before humans existed. When we imagine Earth’s past, our minds usually jump to roaring dinosaurs and fern-covered landscapes. But the real theatre of evolutionary excess was underwater. The oceans of deep time were not …
Fun fact: There are magnetic materials on Earth where tiny defects behave as if single magnetic poles—something physics textbooks say should not exist—are freely roaming inside a solid. That strange idea lies at the heart of “Spin Ice: When Magnets Refuse to Behave.” It sounds like a contradiction, almost a prank played by nature. Magnets, …
