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Even Climate Scientists Are Getting Depressed by Our Lack of Progress
Anxiety about the changing environment isn’t just affecting you and professionals are working to understand it
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Guy Fawkes May Be the Root of the Word “Guys”
The word’s meaning has changed a lot throughout the centuries
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What Happens When Western And Traditional Chinese Medicine Merge
These two treatment philosophies were previously seen as being diametrically opposed, but some experts think the systems can complement each another
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Should We Use Satellites to Keep an Eye on Remote Amazonian Tribes?
Satellite monitoring could help keep tabs on indigenous people without invasive visits to their remote homes
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Scratching an Itch Soothes, But Then Your Brain Makes it Worse
Pain overrides itchiness temporarily but neurotransmitters released to cope with that pain reactivate the itch neurons
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Left-Handed People Have Less Specialized Brains
Diversity means flexibility, even if being left-handed can be super annoying
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These Giant Circles in the Mideast Are One of the World’s Last Mysteries
Archaeologists have found more than a dozen ancient circles in Turkey, Syria and Jordan—but don’t know why they were built
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Scotland Is No Longer Home to the World’s Best Whiskys
When it comes to whisky, Japan, the US and even England now reign supreme
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A Horse Racing Favorite Died Minutes After Completing the Melbourne Cup
Admire Rakti wasn’t even the only horse to die at the races
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Great Britain Still Has Significant Debt From World War I
The U.K. is committing itself to paying off a small fraction of that debt next year by issuing new debt
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How to Protect the Lincoln Memorial From Crazy Flooding
The capital city’s decades-old system of levees to keep water back during storms and flooding is getting an upgrade
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Fanged Deer Not Extinct, Still Roaming the Mountains of Afghanistan
The Kashmir musk deer was last spotted in 1948 but now researchers report five recent sightings
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What SpaceShipTwo’s Crash Means for Virgin Galactic And Private Spaceflight
Private spaceflight may see tighter federal regulation
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Get Down With This Year’s “Dance Your PhD” Winners
Acrobatic human tornadoes and pair-dancing inertial confinement fusion implosions are among this year’s favorites
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Rovers Disguised as Baby Penguins Can Quietly Infiltrate Penguin Colonies
Normally wary penguins seem unfazed when there’s a smartly dressed robot in their midst
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Just Crashed in California
The private spaceflight company was testing a new fuel for their experimental spaceship
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Did the Gladiators Drink an Energy Drink Made of Ash?
Gladiators were getting extra calcium in their diet
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We Can Measure How Traffic Vibrates the Earth
Special instruments called geophones help researchers distinguish the signatures of big trucks rumbling down the highway and planes taking off
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