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How to Understand the Scale of the Oklahoma Tornado
In terms of size, speed and staying power the Oklahoma tornado was a force of nature
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Lizards Appear to Be Hardier Astronauts Than Mice
Russian scientists say that this experiment represents that longest period animals have ever spent alone in space and been recovered alive
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Wealthy Economic Liberals Actually Are Wimps
In the animal kingdom, larger males are likewise prone to hoard resources and defend larger territories than weaker competitors
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Specially-Trained Honeybees Forage for Land Mines
With special training, these honeybees can sniff out TNT
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You Actually Can Die of a Broken Heart
The stress of loss can actually break your heart, a rare type of heart attack known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
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Your Public Pool Probably Has Feces in It
In the majority of public pools health officials found E. coli and other fecal bacteria
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The Life-Saving App That Sends Pictures of Your Heartbeat to Doctors
A new app outpaces email when sending crucial medical data from the ambulance to the hospital
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Should Students Who Are Bad at Math Receive Therapeutic Electro-Shock Treatments?
Students who had their brains zapped solved math questions 27 percent faster than those who did not
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A Bust of Richard III, 3D-Printed From a Scan of His Recently Exhumed Skull
A forensic art team reconstructed Richard III’s face
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Invasive Crazy Ants Are Eating Up Invasive Fire Ants in the South
How ecosystems will function if fire ants suddenly disappear and are replaced by crazy ants remains an open but worrying question
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Two-Thirds of the World Still Hates Lefties
For 2/3 of the world’s population, being born left handed is still met with distrust and stigma
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Solving Climbing’s Diversity Problem
Seventy-eight percent of the Americans who took part in activities outdoors last year were white
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Subway Is Just as Bad For You as McDonald’s
This ad for Subway sandwiches reminds you that, unlike their fast food competitors that sell burgers and fries and shakes, Subway is healthy. That seems obvious, since they’re selling sandwiches with lettuce on them while other places sell fattening burgers. But a new study suggests that in fact eating at Subway might be less healthy […]
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Doctors Used to Use Live African Frogs As Pregnancy Tests
Now, those former test subjects may be spreading the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus around the world
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A Friendly Reminder From Pretty Much Every Climate Scientist in the World: Climate Change Is Real
Yes, climate change is real. Yes, we are causing it.
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Mount Everest Climbers’ Waste Could Power Local Villages
If successful, the project will be the world’s highest elevation biogas reactor and could be introduced to other high altitude areas around the world
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Water Cut Off From the World for Billions of Years Is Bubbling From the Bottom of a Mine
1.5 miles down at the base of a Canadian mine life may have thrived
So Long, Kepler: NASA’s Crack Exoplanet-Hunter Falls to Mechanical Failure
Kepler has changed our place in the universe, but now the four-year old satellite is down with a broken wheel
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Scientists Are Finding Clues to the Next Mega-Earthquake in One That Hit the West Coast in 1700
Researchers now know details of how the infamous earthquake of 1700 struck the West Coast
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How Pixar and Psychology Helped Facebook Design Its Emoticons
Facebook teamed up with a Pixar illustrator and a psychologist to make the most emotive emoticons it could muster
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