NASA’s GRACE mission created this gravity map.Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio At Fact Fun, we love uncovering science stories that make us question what we know about our planet. In 2023, NASA scientists detected a 7,000-kilometer gravity anomaly stretching…
At Fact Fun, we often explore the strange ways animals communicate—and this time, the spotlight is on a bat species with a courtship ritual no one has ever seen before. Known as the masked seducer bat, this recently described species…
At Fact Fun, we love uncovering stories where science pushes the limits of human experience. A recent case study describes a 16-year-old teenager with extraordinary “mental time travel abilities”—a capacity to vividly revisit past experiences and project herself into imagined…
The Cosmic Horseshoe showcases a colossal structure hidden within another cosmic giant.Image Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI At Fact Fun, we love uncovering stories that stretch the limits of imagination—and the universe. This time, astronomers may have stumbled upon something truly colossal: what…
At Fact Fun, we dive into mysteries that challenge what we thought we knew about human history. And today, that includes a child’s skull buried in one of the world’s oldest known cemeteries, which might hold genetic secrets from two…
Fact Fun dives into a remarkable archaeological find in what is now northern Russia: a massive 125,000‑year‑old Neanderthal fat factory, where prehistoric humans crushed hundreds of large-animal bones to extract nutritious marrow and grease—likely a cornerstone of their diet during…
Fact Fun explores an astonishing archaeological find from Poland: a carved mammoth ivory boomerang discovered alongside a prehistoric human finger bone, sparking fascination over possible rituals practiced by Upper Paleolithic communities some 40,000 years ago. Unearthed in Obłazowa Cave Excavations…
A disk image from the VLT overlaid with JWST contours. The missing mass suggests a possible planet. Image Credit: JWST/ESO/Lagrange Fact Fun dives into space exploration’s latest breakthrough: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed its first exoplanet, a…
This striking photograph captures a fossilized “hell ant.” (Image credit: Anderson Lepeco) Fact Fun dives into a jaw-dropping prehistoric discovery: a fossil of a new species of “hell ant” that lived alongside dinosaurs over 113 million years ago. This remarkable…
O. otagoensis: A face even an arachnophobe could love. Image credit: Robin Long Fact Fun celebrates nature’s more whimsical side with a discovery from New Zealand: a new jumping spider genus discovered in New Zealand—a group of tiny, expressive spiders…