[photo1]Bob BerwynThis story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Seabirds evolved about 60 million years ago, as Earth's continents drifted toward ...
In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in t...
A made-up global warming theory discussed in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is spreading on TikTok despite the platform's new policy against climate disinformation, a new report shared exclusively w...
[photo1]Matt SimonAdd up the million or so buildings in New York City, and you get something on the order of 1.7 trillion pounds of weight pressing on the earth--and that's not even counting all the o...
[photo1]Ramin SkibbaLast night, an Axiom Space mission carrying a private crew blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading toward the International Space Station. The crew of four...
[photo1]Joshua SokolAn oak tree. The symbiotic fungus intertwined with its roots. A cardinal chirping from one of its branches. Our best clue yet to their shared ancestor might have arrived in electro...
There is something you can do right now that will better your workplace. It takes very little effort, costs nothing, and will not only improve the work of your colleagues but also make them feel good....
[photo1]Rachel FairbankIn the months after giving birth to my son in March 2019, my Fitbit started recording some unusual heart rate readings. Pregnancy causes the resting heart rate to rise about 20 ...
You know a theory is janky when even its Wikipedia page has "(pseudoscience)" behind its name in the title. That's the case with so-called "biorhythms," or periods of 23, 28, and 33 days that supposed...
Giant salt flakes are the cool kids of food pop culture. It makes sense, they make a great snacking salt, but they've managed to siphon away attention from the other, more subtle forms of sodium chlor...
[photo1]Saima May SidikThis story originally appeared on Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Dead fish were everywhere, speckling the beach near town and extending onto the surrounding...
Teemu Arina will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amsterdam. If you want to experience the event (and say hi to our editorial team!), we've got something special for...
[photo1]Sabrina WeissJellybean continues to defy expectations. The 5-year-old Labrador retriever mix jumps up and down from her favorite spot on the couch and walks around the living room with such ea...
Most of Mars appears to be an endless expanse of alien desert, without a river or lake in sight. However, liquid water definitely existed in the planet's distant past. A new paper has also suggested t...
Ramin Skibba[photo1]NASA engineers have come up with a power-saving strategy to eke more time--and more science--out of the Voyager probes, humanity's longest-running spacecraft, as they continue vent...
[photo1]Ted WilliamsThis story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration."Thousands of sea lamprey are passed upstream [on the Connecticut River] each y...
[photo1]Morgan Meaker Matt ReynoldsRegent Street is one of the most iconic shopping destinations in the world. The grand, curving street is home to Apple's flagship store, as well as storied London sh...
[photo1] It's been a couple of years since we last saw Dr. Stone. We thought that after Dr. Stone Ryuusei, we might not get another season of Dr. Stone, especially with the manga finished. Luckily and...
[photo1]Ramin SkibbaFor centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth's land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step towa...
[photo1] With the Summer 2023 season officially kicking off, a beloved fav is making its way back to our screens. That's right, Dr. Stone is back with New World! TBH, we've really missed our favourite...