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12 Amazing Facts About Elephants teded: “ In honor of World Elephant Day, we present you with 12 little known facts about one of our favorite creatures…in GIFs, of course. 1. Elephants know every...

Learn why famous meteor showers like the Perseids and Leonids occur every year in this SPACE.com infographic.

Lifecycle of a star

On our NASA site at: https://nasaeclips.arc.nasa.gov/playlists/ourworld?v=our-world-arecibo-the-largest-radio-telescope-on-earthLearn about radio waves, a sp...

I didn’t know that. I also checked out the source for that info and found out some other cool things about the demoted dwarf planet: – The name Pluto was originally suggested by an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England. – No spacecraft has ever visited Pluto, though one is due to reach there in 2015. […]

For centuries before Apollo 11, the idea of visiting the moon fired the imagination.See the 350-year history of moon exploration in this Space.com infographic.

Facts About Your Farts.... this is slightly hilarious

Nature's most interesting eggs.

Several species of sharks can grow to an impressive size. In general, length is much easier to measure accurately than weight, because few are willing

Don't let school year learning slip away this summer: use this chemistry worksheet to practice identifying elements.

Some readers may recall a science class in which an excitable teacher walked to the front of the class to show off a small, cracked steel container, seemingly damaged by an incredibly powerful, but tiny force; only for said teacher to reveal that the damage had been done by nothing more than water. However, what would happen if you put the water in a container it couldn't break out of and then froze it?

Infographic that describes how deep the ocean really is

The Theory of Crustal Displacement or... What is the Pole Shift Theory? The Pole shift hypothesis is not to be confused with geomagnetic reversal, the periodic reversal of the Earth's magnetic field (effectively switching the north and south magnetic poles). Geomagnetic reversal has more acceptance in the scientific community than pole shift hypotheses. The Pole shift hypothesis is almost always discussed in the context of Earth, but other bodies in the Solar System may have experienced…

Pluto's moons are even stranger and more intriguing than scientists had imagined, a new study reveals.