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10,000 Yosemite Visitors May Have Been Exposed to Deadly Hantavirus

Up to 10,000 people who stayed in Yosemite National Park between June and August may have been exposed to a deadly, mouse-borne hantavirus

Happy 100th Birthday to John Cage, Who Made a Lot of People Angry

Sixty years ago, John Cage put on a performance of a piece called 4‘33” or “four minutes, thirty-three seconds.” Today would have been his birthday

Cold War–Era Science Shows Beer Will Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse

In 1955, scientists dropped nukes on beer and soda to see how they held up

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Women Shut Down Deadly Witch Hunts in India (Yes, That Still Happens)

In some parts of rural India the practice of witch hunts is still in vogue, but local women aim to stop it

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Curiosity’s Latest: This Gigantic 3D Panorama of Mars

Using Curiosity’s left and right navigation cameras, NASA produced a 3D panorama of the Martian surface

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NYC Has Its Own Ant, the “ManhattAnt”

A new ant species joins a menagerie of other creatures cut off from their kind in isolated patches of urban green in NYC

Could Skyscrapers Be Made of Wood?

An excess of dead wood in Canada has designers thinking big

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Slept Through Physics? Maybe It Doesn’t Matter

Does sleeping through physics - or math class for that matter - really make a difference to your life?

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The Genetics Behind Venus, the Mysterious Two-Faced Cat

A cat named Venus is perhaps the most famous feline on the planet thanks to her unique markings

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This Is What Extinction Sounds Like

Before-and-after audio records show how ecosystems change

A celebratory Silent Spring float

Crazy Lies Haters Threw at Rachel Carson

Silent Spring turns 50 this month, but Rachel Carson’s ecological game-changer was not always the beloved green bible it is today

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The Stunning Results of Throwing a Water Balloon at a Bald Man’s Head

Photographer TIm Tadder’s “Water Wigs” makes a splash in this collection of unique images

The flag of the Tlicho Nation

Kindergarten Classes Could Save Fading Language

A kindergarten program seeks to teach children a small community’s native language

An octopus in the eastern Pacific

Global Warming Could Increase Biodiversity

Gentle global warming could be a boon for marine biodiversity

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These Rubik’s Cubes Can Be Solved With Touch Alone

These designers have all come up with clever ways to push the game out of the real of sight, and into the realm of touch

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This New Species of Stick Bug Is Big, Slow, Colorful and Smelly

A new species discovered in the Philippines has scientists wondering just how many animals we’re missing out on

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Your Beer Glass May Be Making You Drink More

New research shows that it might be influencing how much booze you down thanks to an optical illusion that makes curved glasses seem more alcoholically innocent than they really are

Birds Hold Funerals For Fallen Comrades

Researchers observed that western scrub jays hold funeral reveries for fallen comrades

Today, passenger pigeons’ habitat consists of a few museum display cases around the U.S.

Extinction Rates Are Biased And Much Worse Than You Thought

The IUCN’s Red List of endangered species looks bad, but the reality is probably much, much worse

A 2002 wildfire in Colorado

Fires Are Escaping Our Ability to Predict Their Behavior

Today’s fires are bigger, weirder, and way harder to model

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