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Why Don’t Lions Attack Tourists on Safari and More Questions From Our Readers
A Moon-less Earth, yoga history, climate change and human speech
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When You Don’t Have Enough Money, It’s Hard to Think About Anything Else
Subjects consumed with money, they found, dropped an average of 13 IQ points, or the equivalent of zapping our brain by pulling a mind-numbing all-nighter
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Time-Traveling Time Lapse Takes the Same Train Ride in 1953, 1983 And 2013
Three time-lapses were shot on the same stretch of rail over 60 years
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Thousands of Dolphins And Whales Will Get in the Way of the Navy’s Bombs, Says the Navy
Underwater explosions and sonar testing is expected to kill hundreds, and injure thousands to millions of animals
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How One Nuclear Missile Base Is Battling Ground Squirrels
In Montana, squirrels have been tunneling under a base’s fences and setting off intruder alarms, prompting researchers to strengthen its defenses
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There Might Soon Be a Cure for (Your Pet Mouse’s) Jetlag
Scientists have found the protein that prevents your (mouse’s) body from adjusting to changing time zones
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Why Do We Cry When We’re Happy?
Your brain can’t handle the overflow of emotion
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New Video of Mei Xiang’s Squawking Baby Panda
The National Zoo’s newest addition is already keeping mom up at night
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This Photographer Is Documenting the Forgotten Female Faces of Farming
The face of farming is almost always male, but women are the fastest growing farming demographic in the country. This photographer is telling their stories
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What’s Behind That Jellyfish Sting?
If you’re headed to the beach this weekend: with Jellyfish populations rising, what should you do if you are stung, and why do stings hurt so much?
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Dung Beetles Offset Climate Change
Even the most determined dung beetles can’t offset all of those emissions, so don’t feel too relieved about that steak or burger
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Slurred Lines: Great Cocktail Moments in Famous Literature
Fancy drinks like the Gimlet and the Brandy Alexander have high class histories
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Russian Authorities Are Deciding If It’s Illegal to Paint Putin in a Negligee
Russian police are flexing their newly appointed authority under the country’s anti-gay propaganda law
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Climate Change Will Green Greenland
Many species of trees and shrubs may take up residence in formerly frozen Greenland, transforming parts of the island into a lush landscape
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Shaking hands with a cheater made study participants feel guilty themselves
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Temporary Companion Leads Uranus in Its Race Around the Sun
A small asteroid that orbits ahead of the seventh planet offers a clearer picture of the ongoing celestial pinball game in the solar system’s outer reaches
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Nurture, Not Nature: Whooping Cranes Learn to Migrate From Their Elders
New research shows that the endangered cranes learn to navigate thousands of miles by taking cues from older birds
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What Isaac Asimov Thought 2014 Would Look Like
Past predictions about the future oftentimes fail miserably, but many of Isaac Asimov’s futuristic visions were pretty accurate
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North Korea Reportedly Executed Pop Singers And Dancers
So far, only one South Korean outlet has reported on this latest possible atrocity, and unfortunately it will probably remain that way
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NASA’s 3-D Printer Is Not Like the 3-D Printers You’ve Heard Too Much About
NASA’s 3-D printer is the 3-D printer your 3-D printer wishes it could be
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