Tag: Explore

Youngest Polar Explorer Has the Perfect Response For Sexist Trolls

Think back to where you were as a 16-year-old. Perhaps you had just received your driver's license. You were having your first kiss. You were trying not to fail Advanced Algebra. Jade Hameister is also 16, and this past January, she became the youngest person in history to complete the Polar Hat Trick, traversing the North Pole, South Pole, and Greenland ice sheet. Her Record-Breaking...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Sets His Sights On Terminating Big Oil

Arnold Schwarzenegger might have taken over the primary role of Donald Trump's TV series The Apprentice for one season, but make no mistake, he isnt' on board with the president's agenda. In fact, the former California governor isn't going after just Trump, but after the entire oil industry. “We’re going to go after them, and we’re going to be in there like an Alabama tick,"...
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Judgement Day is Coming for Monsanto With Ecocide Tribunal

Monsanto has been highly scrutinized for years for their role in the use of toxic chemicals on crops, and the company wasn't winning any...

This Planet is the Closest Thing to Earth Outside our Solar System

Scientists haven't had any luck finding Earth's twin yet, but they have stumbled across its cousin. The planet tagged GJ1132b is around 1.2 times...

Meditation Could be the Answer we Need to School Violence

Teachers and staff at San Francisco's Visitacion Valley middle school know all too well the problems related to violence in American schools. For years...

Norwegians are Better at Winter Than Anyone Else, and Here’s Why

Long gone are the summer days when the sun didn't set until the end of the evening - now when you look out your...

Scientists Have Created a Line of Malaria-Blocking Mosquitoes

Fight fire with fire or in this case, fight malaria with malaria. Scientists at the University of California have created a new strain of...

This Edible Blob Could be Our Future Water Bottle

As we've covered before, plastic waste is a huge problem to our environment with billions of plastic bottles littering our oceans. What if it...

Why Processed Meat isn’t Really a Giant Cancer Boogeyman

Last week, the World Health Organization set out to ruin bacon, sausage and other processed meats forever by linking them to cancer. It was...

Scientists Have Discovered a Comet That Can Get You Drunk

There's a killer happy hour going on right now and it won't happen again for another 8,000 years. The downside is that it's going...

Astronomers Have Found Something Very Strange Close to a Star

Astronomers have become fascinated with a mysterious mass of objects whirling around a distant star. The star, called KIC 8462852, is showing some unusual...

Superhero Bionic Limbs Offer Amputee Children a New Hope

Losing a limb isn't easy for an adult, but for a child it can be even more devastating and carry a stigma of feeling...

Floodwaters Don’t Stand a Chance Against This New ‘Thirsty Concrete’

Concrete doesn’t usually warrant adjectives like “amazing” or “revolutionary”, but those seem like perfect words to describe a new development in the roadway material. This...

Study Shows our Bodies are Becoming Resistant to Weight Loss

Bad news, it's more difficult to lose weight now than it was 30 years ago. Yes, not only are more Americans obese than ever...