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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science has done some genuinely incredible things. We’ve mapped the human genome, landed rovers on Mars, and figured out what ...

Have you ever had a childhood memory suddenly go from "cool story" to "wait, that’s actually terrifying"? That’s the vibe ...

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.

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 ...

Impress your kids with fun facts that are both age-appropriate and surprising. Did you know that ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1800s, or that Earth has more trees than stars in our galaxy?