Even fake guns can be dangerous if they are mistaken for real ones by the police or other armed adults.
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Your experience of time is relative because it depends on motion – more specifically, your speed and acceleration.
Almost everybody uses the internet just about every day. But do you really know what the internet is?
Humans generate a lot of trash, but there are cheaper and safer ways to handle it than loading it on rockets.
The idea of a creature like the Loch Ness monster fascinates people. But does the scientific evidence say it’s a prehistoric beast or total fake?
Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few theories based on the microbes, viruses and prions existing today.
An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.
Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended life on Earth.
Prisons and jails have a long history, but they weren’t always used for the same kinds of punishment.
Starting at the surface, you would have to dig nearly 2,000 miles before reaching the Earth’s core. No one could survive that trip – and the 10,000-degree F heat once there would vaporize you anyway.
Astrology and astronomy were once practiced side by side by scientists like Galileo and Kepler. And they’re more similar than you might think.
It takes a lot of steps – and help from other people – to make a physical book you can hold in your hands.
Pictures and sound, flying through the air to a box in your house? Back in the 1940s, it seemed like a miracle.
A selection of fact-based journalism from 2022, covering topics ranging from super-earths to mosquito magnets, and from why we need to file tax returns to why we can’t just throw all our trash into volcanoes.
What’s true and what’s not? An expert in media literacy explains how to evaluate information.
A mix of New England and British traditions and historical events led to the particular poultry you’ll find on Thanksgiving tables everywhere.
How does flowing water make electricity? An engineer explains hydroelectric generation.
Geographic, cultural and political identity are all part of being Indigenous.
From its origins as a Celtic pagan ceremony to its celebration of all things gruesome and ghoulish today, Halloween has been reinvented over the centuries.
The US and the Soviet Union never engaged in direct combat, but their influences were felt worldwide, including in armed conflicts involving other nations.
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