The Fungus That Quietly Runs a Forest
Meet Armillaria: a single clonal fungus beneath Oregon that quietly spans thousands of trees, acres, and several thousand years of managerial incompetence.Read More 
Fulgurites: Nature's Daft Glass Straws
Lightning sometimes melts sand into hollow glass tubes, like the planet sneezed and left a fragile glass root in the dirt.Read More 
The Gmbc: A Little Stone That Refuses To Stay Down
A Hungarian maths trick turned into a real pebble that always rights itself - and yes, it is as smug as it sounds.Read More 
Superfluid Helium Sneaks Out Like A Traitor
Drop helium below 2.17 kelvin and it stops behaving like a liquid and starts behaving like a quantum pickpocket, climbing walls, leaking from closed vessels and even making fountains when you warm it up.Read More 
When Wood Grew Hair
Twig hairs are not a prank; a fungus and freezing physics conspire to knit real 'hair ice' on dead wood like a ghostly wig.Read More 