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A Four-Point Plan For Feeding Nine Billion People
The world is set for food shortages as the population continues to climb. Here are four things we can do to stop it
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How Gigantic, Ancient Cats And Dogs Got Along
Dogs and cats have never been the best of friends, but 9 million years ago they at least lived in harmony together
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Why We Can’t Give Good Directions
Our minds find it incredibly difficult to appreciate how the world looks to someone who doesn’t know it yet
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Mine-Hunting Humans And Dolphins To Be Replaced by Robots
Just like human jobs, mine-sniffing dolphins are being replaced by robots
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Having Trouble Finding the ISS in the Night Sky? Have NASA Text You
NASA will email or text you to let you know when the ISS will be in your area
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Watch These Beetles Tear the Feathers off a Parrot
Sometimes you just want a skeleton
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Happy Birthday to the Father of the Modern Vampire
If Bram Stoker were alive today, he’d be 165—pretty young for a vampire
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How Astronauts Take Such Beautiful Photographs in Space
How do astronauts capture such amazing photos? What gear do they use? What problems do they run in to?
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Blind Humans Can Learn To Sense Like a Rat With Whiskers
Finger-censor “whiskers” could someday help blind people sense surrounding objects like a rodent
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The Scientific Reason Complementary Colors Look Good Together
Science explains the dynamics behind bold pairings of complementary colors
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Blind Mole Rats’ Cells Self-Destruct Before They Can Turn Cancerous
Researchers tease out the secret behind blind mole rats’ resistance to cancer
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A Conservative Estimate For Dengue Fever Infections in India: 37 Million Each Year
Dengue fever is become more common worldwide, and India has been particularly hard hit
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Picking Up Bacteria Is Now As Easy As Playing a Video Game
Using your hands, a Microsoft Kinect, and some laser tweezers, you can push around nanoscale objects
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Researchers Find Fracking Might Cause Earthquakes After All
New research makes the previously-tangential relationship between fracking and earthquakes much more firm
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The Hunt for Bigfoot Goes High Tech
If anyone can find Bigfoot, it’s probably the drones
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The 2012 Election’s Big Winner: Math
Independently of President Barack Obama’s win last night, this year’s campaign was one in which numbers trumped gut
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Not All End-Zone Celebrations Are Treated Equally
On recent study suggests that, like many other situations in which there is enforcement of a rule - excessive celebration calls might have something to do with race
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Whatever Happened to Sociologists?
Sociology wasn’t always the brunt of jokes from other scientists
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What Can We Learn From the Porn Industry About HIV?
Before getting naked and having sex in front of a camera, porn stars have to go through three checks - all for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases
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