A banker in London sends the latest stock info

to his colleagues in Hong Kong in less than a second.

With a single click, a customer in New York

orders electronics made in Beijing,

transported across

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When you think of natural history museums,

you probably picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things,

like dinosaurs

meteroites,

and gemstones.

But behind that educational exterior,

which onl

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It's easy to forget how vast and deep the ocean really is.

About 60% of it is actually a cold and dark region

known as the deep ocean.

And it reaches down to 11,000 meters.

Yet, this remote zone is al

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What's so great about the Great Lakes?

They're known as America's inland seas.

The North American Great Lakes

Huron,

Ontario,

Michigan,

Erie,

and Superior

are so massive that they border eight states

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On September 6, 1522,

the "Victoria" sailed into harbor in southern Spain.

The battered vessel and its 18 sailors were all that remained

of a fleet that had departed three years before.

Yet her voyage

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How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire?

More than 100 years after his creator was laid to rest,

Dracula lives on as the most famous vampire in history.

But this Transylvanian noble,

ne

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Deep inside Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

lies the only copy of a 240-page tome.

Recently carbon dated to around 1420,

its vellum pages features looping handwriting

and

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Stretched across a tree-peppered expanse in southern Africa

lies the magnificent ruins of Great Zimbabwe,

a medieval stone city of astounding wealth and prestige.

Located in the present-day country of

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What if electricity could travel forever without being diminished?

What if a computer could run exponentially faster with perfect accuracy?

What technology could those abilities build?

We may be able

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Every year, the world uses 35 billion barrels of oil.

This massive scale of fossil fuel dependence pollutes the Earth

and it won't last forever.

Scientists estimate that we've consumed about 40% of

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