Black smoke indicates that votes have been cast, but no candidate has received the two-thirds majority required to be elected pope. White smoke means that a new pope has been selected.

As explained by Popular Science, thick black smoke often indicates synthetic materials are burning, and that the fire is consuming oxygen rapidly.

Science Animals only see in black and white and 5 other color myths 'The Universe in 100 Colors' unravels the wonders of color and the natural world. Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge ...

A white woman who berated two black women at a North Carolina restaurant with a racial slur said she is not sorry and that she would say it again. Nancy Goodman was caught on video directing the N ...

Panda ants are actually wasps masquerading as an adorable ant, with black and white females possessing stingers half as long as their entire bodies.