Senior SETI astronomer will bet you that intelligent aliens are due in the next 20 years
Time for some of that Earther hospitality.
Aggressive driving burns up to 40% more fuel and can waste one dollar per gallon
Ah cost, the ultimate motivator.
Hard-pressed by humans, rainforests lost their ability to act as carbon sinks
Instead, they now release around 8% of global emissions.
UK’s massive wind turbines are setting the course for a cheap-energy future
They're more like bigbines.
The WHO calls for governments to boycott anti-smoking Foundation funded by big tobacco
Sometimes I feel a burning need to spell 'conflict of interest' in capital letters. This is one of those times.
Increasingly fragmented habitats may spell doom for the giant panda
Apart from this, the species is continuing its recovery.
People haven’t lost faith in democracy despite low voter turnouts, paper reports
How democracy set in plays a large role in voting patters.
Hubble snaps the first binary-asteroid comet we’ve ever seen
Asteroids of a feather flock together. Sometimes into a comet.
Owls’ ears are always in tip-top shape because they’re self-repairing
They can hear you being salty because they can hear everything.
Designer Oscar Lhermitte brings the moon to your fingertips
You can't get any more lunar than this without leaving the planet.
Democracy is failing in the West, scientists warn
Only 19% of young Americans think it's wrong for the military to take over the government if it's incompetent or...
Finnish project aims to turn sawdust into fish food and tackle world hunger
Teach a man to chemically process sawdust into the building blocks of life to feed his fish, and you feed...
“Nothing” changed: ancient Indian text pushes the history of zero back 500 years
As far as modern tech and know-how is concerned, zero is the hero.
Gemstones prove asteroid impact was the hottest event ever recorded on Earth
That spot is not a lake in cold, snow-covered Canada.
Volkswagen is investing 70 billion Euros into electric vehicles
Time to make amends, VW.
Death of a dynasty: west North America lost over 95% of its monarch butterflies in 35 years
One of the continent's most dazzling displays dies with them.
Tapwater around the world is full of microplastics, study reveals
It's literally everywhere.
Scotland to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2032, eight years earlier than the rest of the UK
A great move for the Scotts.
Birmingham design student crafts cool, fully recyclable furniture — from cow dung
You could say she... manurefactures them.
The Caspian Sea is running out of “sea” because of climate change, paper reports
Soon to be the ex-largest inland lake on Earth.
White Cliffs of Dover in danger from developers, National Trust pleas for donations to keep them safe
A unique place is in danger. Here's how to pitch in.
Higher temperature and more CO2 is good for trees, but overall climate change will damage forests
It could start a self-reinforcing loop.
Trying to resist a yawn makes you more likely to yawn — because your motor cortex is wired that way
It's ridiculous how many times I've yawned writing this.
MIT designs robot to be a good pedestrian and not bump into you on the sidewalk
It's had hours upon hours of simulation training to learn the basics.
Most shark fins and ray gills sold in Vancouver come from threatened, trade-banned species
We're literally eating the viability of tomorrow's oceans.
Heavily armored dino might’ve used its plates as status symbols, to attract mates, intimidate rivals
It's all about passing on your genes.
Blood DNA sequencing reveals there’s a lot more microbes living inside you — and we’ve never seen over 99% of them before
What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Right? Guys?..
Researchers design carbon yarn that generates energy from motion or waste heat
I guess we can all be current benders now!
A robotic Buddhist priest can now perform funerals in Japan
It can live-stream funerals, too.
Dragonfly dual-quadcopter drone proposed to explore Titan to understand how life appeared
The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.
Huge asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1st, NASA announces
Make sure to wave as it passes by.
This space probe is so small you could lose it in your backpack — and it just got launched into space
Four grams worth of space explorer.
Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s — it revived the forest
Orange is the new forest.
Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions
Stay hydrated up there, ladies and gents.
Book Review: ‘Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve’
A must-read book spanning time and science.
Increasing the price of US cigarettes by just one dollar per pack would lead to one million people kicking the habit
A small increase to bring about huge change.
Learning and exploration might drive teenagers’ risky, bad decisions, not poor impulse control
Ah, adolescence... so glad I'm over that.
Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares
Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.
Scientists use the world’s smallest chisel to investigate dagger-wielding bacteria
Amoebophilus doesn't play around.
Talking in a foreign language makes our decision more about utility, less about emotion
The language we use really does influence what our brains are doing.
Drug-resistant candida outbreaks in the UK despite hospital efforts to control it
The CDC deemed this fungus a "serious global health threat."
Trump Forest wants to compensate for the POTUS’ climate policy by planting 100 new billion trees
Nope, it's not Trump's idea.
Fish farming could cover our demand for seafood one hundred times over, paper estimates
Something smells fishy... Oh wait, it's my lunch.