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Japan Is Building a 40-foot Wall to Stop Tsunamis
But the expensive, extensive wall might not be high enough
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Major Science Publisher Admits “Fabricated” Peer Reviews
But are BioMed Central’s retractions just the tip of the iceberg?
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Why Craigslist Users Are Flocking to Police Departments
New “safe lot” programs aim to make buying and selling goods safer
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Here’s More About the Drug Behind Indiana’s HIV Epidemic
Illegal use of Opana, or oxymorphone, is fueling a public health crisis in Scott County, Ind.
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Hundreds of Car-Sized Fossil Amphibians Found in a Mass Grave
The huge creature is related to modern-day newts, salamanders and frogs
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Watch Two of the World’s Newest Bald Eagles in the Nest
Sneak a peek into a bald eagle abode where the next fine-feathered generation just emerged
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The Navajo Nation Will Have the First Junk Food Tax in the U.S.
The Navajo National Council approved a 2 percent increase in sales tax on foods like pastries, fried foods, desserts, chips and soda
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Why Would Cooling Rice Make it Less Caloric?
Scientists suggest a new way to prepare rice that they say could help slow the worldwide obesity epidemic
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NASA’s Twin Study May Never Be Published
Privacy concerns could stymie NASA’s study of Scott and Mark Kelly
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New Census Data Shows Fastest-Growing Areas
Florida, Texas post big gains in 2013-2014 statistics
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Perfectly Pudgy Newborn Hippo Arrives at the San Diego Zoo
Welcome to the world, tiny, adorable river horse!
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Tree Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Has Reproduced
Age doesn’t have much on this rare piece of greenery sprouted from a seed discovered in an ancient Israeli site
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An Asteroid Boulder Will Be A Stepping Stone on the Journey to Mars
NASA announces details in its plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit
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That Time an Astronaut Smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich To Space
The sandwich was a joke but its crumbs proved to be too much — for politicians, not for the mission
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How Tampons Might One Day Help Detect Cancer
New research suggests tampons could screen for endometrial cancer
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Mozambique has “Kitten-Sized” Rats Trained to Sniff Out Tuberculosis
Highly trained rodents are helping doctors better diagnose TB in a region hard hit by the deadly disease
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Want to Live Longer? Don’t Sleep So Much
New research links longer sleep duration with a shorter life
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Why Forecasters Were Once Banned From Using the Word “Tornado”
Before meteorologists developed reliable prediction techniques, the t-word was off the table
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Here’s How Music Really Could Soothe Your Soul
A leading scholar theorizes that music developed as an evolutionary adaptation to help us deal with the contradictory nature of life
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