The tiny northern corroboree frog of Australia is only just hanging on. Populations of both the northern and southern corroboree frogs have declined catastrophically in the wild over the last two decades. The primary culprit is the deadly chytrid fun...
Archeologists in Italy have unearthed a sprawling country villa they believe to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who ordered the beginning of the Colosseums construction during his reign. The 2000-year-old ruins were found about 80 m...
A walking humanoid robot(类人机器人) able to use its whole face and body to express emotion was unveiled this week in Japan. The robot was created by scientists at Tokyo's Waseda University and its makers say its the first of its kind. It is abl...
This weekend Why Tell Me Why were answering a viewer question about lightning safety. So you want to find out where the safest place to be is in the lightning storm. So where is the safest place to be? Actually, the safest place to be is inside an en...
Queuing like school children, these penguins are waiting to receive the life-saving medicines and nutrition. They owe their lives to SANCCOB, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds. SANCCOB responded to a call for help...
The Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth and runs more than 50 miles in length and stretches 11 miles across its wildest point, bordering Israel, The West Bank and Jordan. Large sections of the coast are fenced off and sign posted in Hebrew and Engl...
Rick swims through a shadowland thousands of feet deep. Out of the dark, animals can materialize not just from in front or behind, but above or below as well. Were down swimming around in that dark sea, looking in a miniature world and suddenly I fee...
Off the coast of Boston, scientists scan the horizon for something largehumpback whales. In the busy waters of the Stellwagen Bank, National Marine Sanctuary, whales must navigate around submerged fishing gear. And on the surface, collisions to the s...
Well, the story of the earth spin goes back all the way to the origin of the solar system, four and a half billion years ago. The solar system started out as a cloud of gas and dust. And these gas and dust clumped together to form the sun and the var...
The sharks are under increasing threat around the world from overfishing. They are used as a food item in many parts of the world. Shark fin soup is particularly popular in Asian countries. And sharks are easy to catch. You put a baited hook in the w...
This week on Why Tell Me Why, we are finding out why the oceans are so salty. So the oceans are salty because the oceans have been around, lets say, for over five hundred million years. And over the course of time what we found out is that weve alway...
Chinese archaeologists have started to excavate more of the life-size terracotta warriors at the famed ancient tomb of the country's first emperor. China state TV on Sunday showed archaeologists uncovering more of the elaborately carved soldiers, to...
Kasey on Why Tell me Why. Someone asked why veins are blue and blood is red. So that's part of this question: why do we have different blood types? Blood types are inherited, just like you inherit your eye color, or your hair texture, so you get a ge...
Hi, its Kasey-Dee Gardner, in this weekend Why Tell Me Why will answer an interesting viewer question. The viewer wants to know why certain species die after they reproduce. So, we're here to find out the answer. Urn, so there are a bunch of species,...
Hi, its Kasey-Dee Gardner for Why? Tell Me Why? This week we received a question about baby eye color. The question was why are most babies born with blue eyes?. And I wasnt sure that was a true statement, but it is in fact a true statement. Actually...
