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One tiny piece of sandstone found in Jordan could be the world’s oldest known chess piece ever found. Chess is believed to come from India from around 1,500 years ago. Since then, it has spread around the world. That being said, the game itself, its pieces, and its name, likely changed over time. In a […]
Anything larger would need more blood than a heart can pump.
New study says there's a full consensus among scientists on man-made climate change
I'll be a genius by the time I hit 70.
No helmet is injury-proof -- but this could make quite a difference.
Unecessary e-mails are responsible for as much CO2 as thousands of cars.
A White House report calculated the staggering cost of the opioid misuse crisis.
The more things change, the more they stay the same: manipulation isn't a new concept, it's been around since the dawn of mankind.
A new film pushes the boundaries of stop motion cinematography by employing 3D figurines the size of a grain of dust.
Like Exxon, the coal industry knew that its product would cause climate change and has tried its best to hide this fact.
A new study reports on 364 genetic elements that could be involved in obesity regulation.
The printed objects are small, but very complex.
A further global warming could lead to irreversible changes
The US space agency hopes to go back to the moon by 2024
The national dietary guidelines of Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia are sustainable.
World needs to increase its climate action five times
A new theory suggests that planets could form in dense dust and gas clouds surrounding supermassive black holes at the centre of active galaxies.
Give it up for the most resilient storm in our solar system.
Spoiler alert: things are not looking too good.
Nicotine trigers both aversion and pleasure in the brain. By targetting neurons responsible for aversion to nicotine, it could be possible to design very effective smoking cessation drugs.
Late-blooming prairies can provide a much-needed respite to farm bees.
A biblical-like ancient snake is revealing new insights into snake evolution.
Songs from cultures around the world have similar patterns
As Hippocrates once said “People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it’s divine.” Four of the hardest words to process are “you’ve had a seizure.” […]
An entire school district in Colorado shut down in the face of norovirus outbreaks.
Can an island just close down for a few days in order to preserve its ecosystems? Apparently so.
A letter signed by 2,500 scientists pleads for more sustainable agricultural practices. They call on policymakers “to act on the science, and undertake a far-reaching reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) without delay.” It’s not just the bees In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, there was no unified agricultural integration in […]
One of NASA's most forgotten missions to the moon, but also one of the funniest
Heavy industries could replace fossil fuels with a new solar technology.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but generally, don't trust the government when your country is burning.
While most of the world says goodbye to coal, China keeps opening new plants
The Reef is bloody, but unbowed.
Let's face it, 1 for 7 years is not accurate.
This was the first time such a behavior was observed in insects and may represent a unique adaptation to bees.
Very, very probably wrong.
Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world. Its terrain alternates between mountains and rolling plateaus, with tundra and green plains in between. Many Mongolians also maintain a pastoral lifestyle, for which the mountainous zones provide crucial support. For the reindeer-herding Tsaatan people, “eternal ice” (the so-called munkh mus) offers much-needed support to […]
Only 122 satellites have already been launched and the impact is already evident, they claim.
This immense simulation is so complex that scientists have observed phenomena that had not been programmed explicitly in the code.
The longer trend is clear: the Earth is feverish.
The emissions of Bitcoin are on par with those of Croatia or Estonia.
Every day, more than 141 billion liters of water are used to flush.
Wild mammals living near agriculture fields were found to change their diets.
This is one of the most important findings of the decade.
Birds of a feather flock together... but how do they decide where to go and who to follow?
The city of Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, will have its next sunrise on January 23rd, 2020.
The researchers caution that this doesn't mean that they can reverse Down's syndrome in humans.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is again under the spotlight after this year's forest fires
Tasty science: researchers tested 56 broths, and a few of them showed antimalarial properties in vitro, interrupting the lifecycle of the most deadly of the malarial parasites, Plasmodium falciparum.
The koloa's genome is well expressed and diverse -- which is good news for many other species in Hawaii and beyond.
Doctors say this is a cautionary tale for everyone who uses feather duvets
