25 fun facts about science Posted: December 9, 2025 | Last updated: December 9, 2025 Sound moves faster in water…? We may need fish to get us to Mars…? There was a robot in the 15th century…? Here are ...

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 ...

Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

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 ...

The world is a mysterious place, which gives Live Science plenty of material for our popular Life's Little Mysteries series that runs every weekend. We've been writing mysteries since 2004, and we ...

Did you know earthworms breathe through their skin? Mad Science of Austin & San Antonio shares fun facts about these wiggly worms, and how your kids can learn about science at summer camp.

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Artificial insemination is now being used by the Brevard Zoo to help white rhinos avoid extinction. A White Rhinoceros feeds in its shelter at Knowsley Safari, near Liverpool, northern England on May ...

Do you know how gelatin (jello) is made? Do you know what gelatin was used as before it was food? Watch our latest fun science facts video to find out! Do you know how gelatin (jello) is made? Do you ...