Everyday Myths

We've all seen it in the movies: A guy stumles across quicksand, and before we know it, he's waist deep and can't get out. Does Hollywood have it all wrong?

By Kevin Bonsor &Katherine Neer

无论你咀嚼清新呼吸或打击big bubble, you probably shouldn't swallow gum. But does it really stay in your body for seven years if you do?

ByJosh Clark

Leap years only come around once every four years. So, why are they so rare and who decided we need them anyway?

ByMarianne Spoon

Most of us are accustomed to watching 2-D films with flat images. But when we put on 3-D glasses, we see a world that has depth. We can imagine existing in such a world because we live in one. What about another dimension altogether?

ByMolly Edmonds&Desiree Bowie

Forward and back, left and right, up and down -- most of us are familiar with these spatial dimensions. We might even pinpoint our location in time. Is that all there is to dimensions? No way, say the scientists who have a theory for everything.

ByRobert Lamb

To understand the universe better, scientists from all over the world are going to harness the power of an enormous machine -- the Large Hadron Collider.

ByJonathan Strickland

Decades before you ever heard of the Higgs, this multinational particle physics lab was smashing its way to answers about how the universe worked. Pop inside CERN just as half of the world's particle physicists do every year.

ByJohn Perritano

There's actually an equation to figure it out!

ByKatherine Neer