The Clean Air Act in the US saved 1.5 billion bird lives over the past 4 decades
Clean air is good news for everyone!
Ireland’s first-ever dinosaur fossils confirmed
Geologically speaking, Ireland is not conducive to finding dinosaur fossils.
Two of Darwin’s notebooks were lost, possibly stolen, around 20 years ago — Cambridge University calls for public help
Now that's what I call delayed action!
Lockdowns shut whole economies down, but greenhouse gas levels are still rising
It worked for a time, but a more sustained effort is needed -- for our own sakes.
New species of glowing mushroom found growing on dead bamboo in India
Glowing is always in fashion.
Resistance is futile: what viruses are, and why we’ll never ‘beat’ them
They’re the most successful group on the planet, and they’re not even alive.
How Galileo Galilei’s discoveries helped create modern science
This was a man not afraid to stand and gaze into the heavens -- thankfully for us all.
Fossil Friday: ancient shark bones turn out to be the teeth of a new species of flying dinosaur
I mean, who hasn't this happened to, right?
Water could be a natural byproduct of rocky planets forming — so it could be almost everywhere
This would be very helpful.
Warming climates make hurricanes more dangerous and longer-lasting over dry land, a new study explains
They are no longer confined to coastal areas, the authors explain.
AI translates ancient cuneiform tablets
It should help us preserve these priceless texts for the future.
Could bacteria take up jobs mining in space? Turns out, they could
It's honest work.
Anti-COVID-19 measures could lead to large, delayed outbreaks of other diseases if we don’t prepare
There never seems to be a shortage of diseases.
You’re being duped with counterfeit wine — but this machine-learning approach can save you
No more counterfeit wine for me! Probably.
“Harmony Square” is new a video game against political misinformation, backed by the Department of Homeland Security
To be honest, the game is about producing and implementing such misinformation.
Fossil Friday: amphibian trapped in amber is the first known ‘tongue-thrower’
The fossils were at first (mistakenly) identified as being an ancient chameleon.
A brewery in the Netherlands becomes the first iron-fueled factory in the world
That's pretty metal!
The effects of sea-level rise on communities are complex and unpredictable, says a new study
Sometimes, the sea comes to you -- those are not good times.
A robot near you might soon have a tail to help with balance
My pets already have them so why not?
Can weather help against the coronavirus? New study says ‘no, but behavior can’
So you know, stay at home, watch a movie.
Newly-discovered fossil lizard shows how uncertainty can lead to better science
Sometimes, it's best to admit that we simply don't know the right answer (yet).
Researchers pinpoint the brain area that ultimately governs attention and focus
Mine keeps letting me down.
STIs are on the rise in Italy despite the lockdown
Oh you naughty, naughty kids.
Australia’s wildfires created a ‘record-breaking’ smoke plume in the upper atmosphere
Can’t have smoke without fire.
Fossil Friday: leg fragment points to huge, toothy bird with a wingspan of up to 21 feet
Imagine how many nuggets you could make from one of these.
Google-Alphabet balloon breaks record for longest flight in the stratosphere
It spent 312 days in the air.
Recycling smartphones: yes, it’s a thing. Here’s what you need to know
With Black Friday and the winter holidays just around the corner, we're in no short supply of good deals during...
For some wild mammals, home is now your backyard, not the forest
People often provide food and shelter that these animals have learned to use.
New mesothelioma treatment involves tiny tubes of gold and lasers
Killing cancer with style.
Stronger, longer-lasting perovskite solar panels could be on the way
This could mean less pollution and cheaper energy for us all
New ceramic catalyst sponge promises to turn waste organic matter into cheap biofuel, medicine
Don’t throw away that rancid oil, we can top up the car with it!
NASA’s asteroid sampling mission ran into a problem: they sampled too much asteroid
Suffering from success.
Book Review: “Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events”
Could economies be driven by what people believe, not by cold facts? One book says “probably”.
Researchers identify the exoplanets that can see the Earth is inhabited
Are we alone in the universe? We don't know. But, according to a new paper, we now have a map...
We should expect long-term ice loss even if we stop climate change today, according to a new study
Sometimes, there's just no putting the paste back in the tube -- or the ice back in the ice sheet.
The Great Plains could be drying down into a new Dust Bowl
A new study says we should get ready for a blast from the past -- in all the wrong ways....
NASA makes history, harvests its first sample from an asteroid
Getting excited over a handful of dirt is sometimes very warranted.
Hurricanes are becoming faster, more frequent, and almost 40% of Americans are exposed to them
Climate change is partially to blame.
Who invented cheese? You can thank the Indus Valley Civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization was the earliest known producer of dairy and dairy products, according to new research.
Our brains tend to judge whole experiences by how they ended, which can lead to poor decisions in the future
We’re not always rational actors.
How many people would a modern nuke kill?
These aren't small numbers. At all.
The spicy history of how pumpkin spice got so popular
Your favorite autumn latte has quite the troubled history -- and no pumpkin.
University in Idaho warns its students to stop trying to catch COVID-19 to sell their plasma
As one Reddit comment put it, they "gotta pay that tuition somehow".
Young Americans are drinking less, but they’re using weed and prescription drugs more than ever before
So far, however, this shift is less damaging overall than the alcohol abuse of old, according to the authors.
Researchers map the anatomy of the ‘mysteriously-shaped’ beetle
In the end, it didn’t live up to the name!
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the United Nations for its efforts in feeding the world’s hungry
A cause worthy of our praises -- and Prizes.