Backyards could supply between 50% to 100% of your family’s protein needs
If you got it, work it.
Lightning discharges help clean the air of some greenhouse gases
We only found this out by accident.
What is globalization: how goods and people move across an ever-smaller world
We’ve been moving towards it ever since we first learned how to farm.
Fossil Friday: private collector wanted a dinosaur skull, but got a huge, fossilized bony fish lung
Haven't we all fallen for this at one point in our lives?
Magnetic field readings point to the structure of Saturn’s interior
Until we can put a person on Saturn to check, we can't confirm these findings.
Genomic studies uncover the tale of the first Bronze Age civilizations in Europe
Their customs and advances still shape our lives today.
Citrus fruit stands poised to make transparent wood more sustainable, stronger, and more transparent
This is a whole new level of 'when life gives you lemons'.
Florida men find mammoth bone while scuba diving
The odds of a fossil being near you is never quite zero.
Genetically modified grass saves soils destroyed by military target practice
GMOs to the rescue!
China launches first module in its new Space Station
Space is getting more and more crowded.
Satellite data shows that the Earth’s glaciers are melting faster than ever before
This doesn't make it high on the idealio scale.
Farming algae could surprisingly help stave off deadly algae blooms
If you can't beat them... sow them? In water? Could work.
Adult T-Rexs likely couldn’t keep up with their offspring, judging from their paw prints
Parents everywhere can probably relate.
Huge stash of abused Iron Age weapons discovered in a German hill fort
Someone made a great effort to ensure these weapons would never be usable again.
A cost-effective way to recycle plastic could be commercially available in ‘5 to 10 years’
Not a decade too soon.
Fossil Friday: surprise teen Plesiosaurus found in ammonite mine in Alberta, Canada
You never know when a Plesiosaurus is close. One could be behind you right now.
The color purple is unlike all others, in a physical sense
The 'royal color' does indeed stand apart from the rest.
NASA’s InSight rover is running out of battery charge on Mars, and may need to hibernate through winter
That's the best case scenario. We're faced with a very real possibility that the craft shuts down completely.
Exercise five hours a week to protect against hypertension later in life
Why is it never cheesy fries that make you healthier?
Researchers uncover the oldest known species with opposable thumbs — a dinosaur in China
They nicknamed it 'Monkeydactyl', just in case you thought researchers act like adults.
The pandemic slashed the use of cash for transactions. The future will likely follow the same trend
Cash will probably not be gone completely -- but it will be much more uncommon to use.
Shade from solar panels makes for more and more diverse flowers
Bees everywhere support this message.
Humanity is making everything saltier around us, and it’s hurting the environment (and our infrastructure)
"We used to think about adding salts as not much of a problem," the authors say. "But we realized that...
Famous Egyptologist reports the discovery of a whole ancient settlement
Not everyday that you find a city.
Personalized cancer vaccine shows efficacy against multiple cancers in early tests
Hopefully, future tests will support these findings.
Fossil Friday: microbes discovered deep underground remain virtually unchanged since 175 million years ago
Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.
Post-exercise hunger could thwart your efforts to lose weight
Physical effort can increase our appetite quite strongly, a new paper explains.
Ants handle social isolation about as well as humans do — poorly
Social isolation can lead to a lower tolerance for stress, lower interest in socializing and keeping clean, as well as...
Modern rainforests were born when the dinosaurs died, a new paper explains
To be honest, I'd rather be around papayas than velociraptors.
A new species of bird discovered in Brazil has a green head, yellow belly, and a high risk of going extinct soon
I would have been fine with just the green head and yellow belly, honestly.
Can geoengineering stop climate change? A new paper says it can help, but it’s no magic bullet
And there's still a lot we don't understand about its effects.
Stone-age humans mostly ate meat, then ran out of big animals
When you're all out of McMammoth, you need to start improvising.
Uranus is leaking radiation, researchers say
Some headline formats never get old.
We finally have a vaccine that works against HIV (in early tests)
It was safe and showed efficacy for 97% of the participants in the trial.
What is pain, and why do we even need it?
No carrot, all stick.
Our brains get a boost when studying new languages, to help us along
It can be used to track our progress.
Fossil Friday: we might have found the earliest known cephalopod, extending the family’s history by 30 million years
This would make cephalopods one of the earliest multicellular organisms on the planet.
NASA just added three more sonification projects to their page and I couldn’t be more delighted
The subdued, mysterious, and longing tunes sound very appropriate for outer space.
What counts as fruits and veggies for the “five a day”? This study clears things out
The "five a day" approach is a useful simplification. Although the potato (tragically) doesn't make the cut.
Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself
We all got to eat, right?
India moves to regulate Bitcoin use in a bid to stimulate its local markets
As cryptocurrencies become more widely accepted, their environmental impact will also grow.
Climate change brings season change: by 2100, half the world will see 6-month-long summers
Please no I don't have an air conditioner.
Older individuals are most at risk from COVID — but they’re the least stressed about it
Experience has its perks.
A new approach to cleaning space junk is being tested in space right now
It's not meant to remove what's already there, but to stop new trash from piling up.
Icelandic eruption attracts thousands of visitors, helicopter rides, over the weekend
I've seen worse locations for hanging out.
People who can’t form images in their mind have a surprising trait — they’re harder to spook with words
Ignorance really does seem to be bliss -- even from our own minds.
Scientists observe nanobots coordinating inside a living host for the first time
We're talking swarms of millions of bots here.
Mars’ water didn’t escape; it’s trapped in the red crust
Not being tectonically active has its drawbacks.