Watch the first appearance of 'Looney Tunes' characters Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

A 1980s soap opera helped popularize Napa Valley, broadcasting the idyllic wine country to millions of American viewers every week.

'Weight cycling'—when someone repeatedly loses and gains weight—can harm an individual's metabolism.

King George III drafted a letter of abdication during the American Revolutionary War.

China doubled its nuclear stockpile between 2020 and 2025, with plans for further expansion.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope—the first major NASA space telescope named after a woman—is expected to survey 12% of the sky in 17 months, a feat that would take the Hubble Space Telescope over a thousand years.

Actress Ingrid Bergman was born on Aug. 29 and died on the same day, 67 years later.

Fast-food prices have increased more over the past 10 years than both full-service restaurants and inflation.

The word 'coupon' comes from a French word meaning 'to cut.'

All hurricanes have a central eye where no extreme weather phenomena take place.

Discover how strength training may help your brain and what happens inside your cells when you work out with this original 1440 Explores podcast.

Discover how strength training may help your brain and what happens inside your cells when you work out with this original '1440 Explores' podcast.

Thomas Edison, eager to communicate with ghosts, tinkered with an apparatus called the 'spirit phone.'

In a standard deck of 52 cards, shuffling produces one of approximately 8.07 × 10⁶⁷ potential card orders—a number about as large as the number of atoms in the Milky Way.

Listen to what a forest in the Jurassic Period may have sounded like with this reconstructed soundscape, which was created by analyzing the fossilized wings of 165 million-year-old insects.

See South Korea's nighttime light usage, which far surpasses that of North Korea.

A fire in NYC that burned a fifth of the city in 1776 may have been started under orders from George Washington.

Tariffs once fueled the US economy, historically serving as a primary source of revenue and a means to protect domestic industries.

Dolly Parton released her first recording at age 13, a rockabilly number she cowrote called 'Puppy Love.'

If there were a swimming pool on the moon, where gravity is about one-sixth that of Earth, championship finswimmers could potentially launch themselves up to 5 meters (16 feet) in the air.

Chameleons change color by altering the spacing of nanocrystals under their skin, which changes what colors of light are absorbed and reflected.

Use this interactive tool to see which occupations have the highest and lowest divorce rates.

Full-time employees can cost up to 1.4 times as much as an independent worker.

See how cataracts—a leading cause of vision loss globally—form and how sound waves are often used to help remove them.

More than 40 quintillion black holes are estimated to exist in the universe, including about 100 million in the Milky Way, each with masses up to hundreds of times that of the sun.

While El Niño moves warm Pacific Ocean waters east along the equator, La Niña moves them west, shifting where rainfall will become more common for months.

Check out cheap, mass-market, and often trashy editions of classic books from Ralph Ellison, James Joyce, Jane Austen, and many more.

Explore and visualize AI-driven riverine and flash-flood forecasts across more than 150 countries to anticipate these natural disasters up to seven days in advance.

The Planck time, equal to 5.39 × 10⁻⁴³ seconds or less than a millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, is the smallest unit of time that could ever be theoretically measured.

Dairy Queen can't legally call its frozen dairy products 'ice cream' because they don't meet FDA qualifications for the term.

Nike is one of the world's most recognizable brands, partly due to its 'swoosh' logo.

The US Army Corps of Engineers once stopped water from flowing into Niagara Falls to prevent long-term erosion.

'Golden blood' is the rarest blood type in the world—fewer than 50 people are known to have it.

Trick a large language model into revealing secret passwords over multiple rounds, each with increasing safeguards.

The 1962 Baker v. Carr Supreme Court case was so divisive that it caused a justice's mental breakdown.

Safely explore historic viruses and other malicious software in the Malware Museum.

Trick a large language model into revealing secret passwords over multiple rounds, each with increasing safeguards.

The underlying fabric of the universe—spacetime—changes shape in the presence of mass and energy, which affects measurements of space and time.

Explore a map of data centers worldwide, numbering over 12,250 as of August 2026, with over 4,500 in the US.

View an illustrated history of Microsoft Solitaire, first released as part of the Windows 3.0 operating system in 1990 to help users get familiar with using a mouse.

Listen to audio clips from Hoover, a harbor seal named after its insatiable appetite, who learned to say English phrases such as 'hello there' and 'come over here.'

'Loud budgeting' is a budgeting strategy in which one practices being open with their peers about what they can and can't afford.

A deaf college football quarterback may have invented the huddle, so teams could not steal their signs.

In 2018, BBC crews filming emperor penguins decided to break their 'no intervention' rule and save the trapped animals from freezing with their young.

'Weight cycling'—when someone repeatedly loses and gains weight—can harm an individual's metabolism.

Take an architectural walking tour of the National Mall.

Before transistors, which regulate the flow of electricity, vacuum tubes—glass tubes containing no gas that resemble light bulbs—served as the electronic switches in computers.

Watch a breakdown of 'The Volcker Rule,' which stopped banks from being able to make trades with client money and is one of the most controversial financial regulations to date.

Use this calculator to find out the programs and services your federal income taxes fund.

Explore a digital graveyard of over 300 products, services, and devices that have been discontinued by Google, including Chromecast, Google+, and Google Goggles.