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The Plan to Save Louisiana’s Coast Is a ‘Moon Shot’
The plan involves moving silt from upstream down into the delta—but no one knows if there’s actually enough
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By Absorbing Smells From Its Food, This Fish Gets Scent Camouflage
The harlequin filefish is a master of camoufalge
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You’ve Never Seen Nerve Endings Like These
Scientists produce the most detailed images of nerve endings ever made
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Typhoons Saved 13th Century Japan From Invasion
Geologic evidence supports historic accounts of the great “Kamikaze” of 1274 and 1281
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A Volcano on Cape Verde Is Wiping Out Whole Towns
An eruption at the Pico do Fogo volcano has forced 1,200 people to evacuate
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Online Students Give Better Reviews to Professors They Think Are Male
Even if the teachers were actually women, if the students thought they were men, the bias stuck
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Curiosity Rover’s Mars Crater May Have Cradled Large Lakes
Signs of water on Mars aren’t new, but now scientists think water may have been there for a long time
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TGI Fridays Has Dispatched Mistletoe-Carrying Drones in Restaurants
There’s already been one collision between drone and human
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These Adorable Robot Toys Teach Kids How to Code
The two bots using a basic visual language, and they are just one way to introduce children to computer programming
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Most Vegetarians Lapse After Only a Year
The vast majority of vegetarians return to eating meat
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The First Piece of Code Written by an American President
The President participated in an introductory coding workshop as part of Computer Science Education Week
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An in-depth investigation of five cities using police body cameras highlights what the technology addresses and what it doesn’t
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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians
Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture
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California’s Ongoing Drought Is Its Worst in 1,200 Years
Tree ring records unveil the severity of California’s drought
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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival
An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
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The Science of the Red Sea’s Parting
It is physically and scientifically possible for a body of water to part
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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840
For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn’t really a thing until the 1950s
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That Detox Diet Is Not Going to Rid Your Body of Toxins
It doesn’t matter how many pureed veggies you drink, they won’t vaporize those mysterious “poisons” you’ve heard about
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It’s Possible to See Exoplanets Without Schmancy Equipment
A cheap DSLR and some light computer processing can unveil far off exoplanets
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