Nature. Sometimes it isn’t all that pretty. credit: Nyffeler & Knörnschild 2013 (Creative Commons license) The True Scale of Arachnid Predation on Vertebrates For many, the image of a spider is limited to small insects trapped in a web. However,…
New Interpretation of Einstein’s Equations Could Reveal What Happened Before the Big Bang in Loop Quantum Cosmology The Limits of General Relativity and the Big Bounce Theory Since Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in 1915, it has…
THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN ANKYLOSAUR HATCHLING FOSSIL IN THE WORLD It’s hard to imagine something as terrifyingly armored as an Ankylosaur starting out small. These Cretaceous tanks were the dinosaurs with built-in defense systems: bony plates covering their backs…
WE JINXED IT: THE GOLDEN COMET C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) HAS SPLIT INTO PIECES Remember that weirdly luminous, gorgeous chunk of ice and rock called Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)? The one that was so close to the Sun that everyone bet…
The Silence of Speed: NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Jet Finally Takes Flight Remember the Concorde? It was fast, glamorous, and loud—really loud. That deafening boom every time it broke the sound barrier is precisely why commercial supersonic travel over land…
Tianwen-1’s Interstellar Stare: China’s Mars Orbiter Captures Comet 3I/ATLAS in Stunning New Photos Our interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/ATLAS, is proving that space exploration is truly a global effort. While the mysterious object was temporarily hidden from the mighty telescopes of…
3I/ATLAS, Interstellar Comet, Alien Spacecraft A mysterious visitor is streaking through our Solar System, travelling at a blinding speed of over 60 kilometers per second. It’s the third interstellar object ever detected, and its arrival has immediately split the scientific…
Hairy Snail, Lagocheilus hayaomiyazakii, Studio Ghibli, New Species Imagine hiking through a lush, misty forest, and there, hiding amongst the damp leaves, you spot something straight out of a whimsical animated film. It’s a tiny, brown snail, but its shell…
An artistic illustration showing comets delivering both regular and heavy water to Earth. Image credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO Vosteen, B. Saxton At Fact Fun, we often look back at Earth’s origins, but this time scientists looked even further — and what…
At Fact Fun, we love when science uncovers moments that seem almost too whimsical to be real. Recently, a sea pig — a bizarre deep-sea relative of the sea cucumber — was caught on camera “dancing” over 2,300 meters (7,500…