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It’s Hard to Protect Arctic Mammals When We Don’t Know How Many Live There
Only a handful of animal populations are well counted — leaving researchers in the dark about how threatened the others are
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Too Much Tech Could Be Causing Nearsightedness…But Not in the Way You Might Think
Forget eye strain—too much time indoors could cause myopia
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Beetle Species, Weirdly, Almost Never Go Extinct
The world is disproportionately filled with beetles—now, a new study suggests that’s because few species have ever been wiped out
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Wikipedia Editing Shows That Different Countries Have Different Sets of Interests
New analysis shows that interests are local, not global
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You Can Thank the Ancient Maya for Your Grocery Store’s Papaya
New research suggests the Mesoamerican civilization was responsible for first cultivating the hermaphrodite version of the plant favored by growers
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Could Your Browser Make You a Better Employee?
The answer could be yes…if you use Firefox or Chrome
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U.K. to Create the World’s Largest Continuous Marine Reserve
The immaculate waters around the storied Pitcairn Islands are to be protected from illegal fishing and mining efforts
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American Bugs Almost Wiped Out France’s Wine Industry
When the Great French Wine Blight hit in the mid 1800s, the culprit turned out to be a pest from the New World that would forever alter wine production
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‘The Stars and Sun Are Everywhere’: 50 Years of Spacewalks
Today marks five decades since cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first human to walk in space
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Chimps Will Work Harder to Get Their Favorite Foods
An experimental setup shows that chimps will travel farther to get a more preferred reward
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Watching Cooking Shows Could Make You Fat
Put down the remote—new research links cooking shows, higher BMI
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The Oldest Known Ancient Roman Fort Has Been Discovered in Italy
Researchers use laser scanners to identify a Roman military camp that may have initiated the settlement of the modern Italian city of Trieste
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Parasites Linked to Cannibalism
A tiny creature makes shrimp more likely to eat their own
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People Ate Pork in the Middle East Until 1,000 B.C.—What Changed?
A new study investigates the historical factors leading up to the emergence of pork prohibition
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How an Early 19th Century Journalist Took Lincoln to Task for Travel Reimbursement
Lincoln was a congress member at the time but not the only one charging too much for travel
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Remote Controlled Bug-Bots Could be First Responders of the Future
Scientists studying how beetles steer themselves in flight gather research that may have implications far beyond understanding bug biology
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Why are Dead Geese Falling From the Sky in Idaho?
Over 2,000 birds have been felled by fast-moving avian cholera
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Did Stonehenge Hold Up a Giant Stage?
A new theory poses that the prehistoric structure could have been something like an “ancient Mecca on stilts”
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Watch a Drone Explore the World’s Largest Cave
Vietnam’s Son Doong cave is a magnificent not-so-microcosm
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Science Is Still Unclear About the Evolutionary Origin of the Anus
A newly published scientific review attempts to “get to the bottom” of how animals acquired what some might call the most indecent part of the body
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