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What Will It Take For Someone to Run A Marathon in Under Two Hours?
Course design, genetics, training and luck all have a hand in this game
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Scientists Figure Out Why Mozzarella Is the Perfect Pizza Cheese
It’s all about the elasticity, moisture and oil content
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Why Kinshasa in the 1920s Was the Perfect Place for HIV to Go Global
Railways, a booming population and many sex workers created ideal conditions for the virus to spread
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How the Isolation of Space Messes with Your Mind
Long-term missions must deal with hallucinations, boredom and the silent treatment between crew members
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The Grand Canyon Will Not Be Mined for Uranium
Uranium mining will be banned for the next 20 years on nearly 1 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon
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The Park Service Wants to Cull 900 of Yellowstone’s 4,900 Buffalo
The Park Service will be killing bison that stray from the park
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Many of the Same Brain Regions Are Activated When Mothers Look at Their Pets or Their Children
It seems that maternal attachment does not discriminate between species
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The Tibetan Plateau is Getting a High-Tech Array of Weather Sensors
The massive research effort will help predict the increasingly unpredictable Indian monsoons as the climate changes
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Whaler Makes History as the First Female in Her Community to Harpoon a Whale
The 31-year old struck the whale near the end of the fall season for Alaska’s bowhead subsistence hunters
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Satellite Observations Revealed Thousands of New Mountains Right Here on Earth
There are thousands of mountains dotting the sea floor
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What Actually Happens to People Who Are Hit by Lightning?
A lifetime of chronic health issues
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Could Climate Change Affect the Number of Boys and Girls Born?
Whether boy babies outnumber girl babies could be influenced by war, temperature and other stress factors
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A Second Baby Thought Cured of HIV Relapsed When Taken Off Antiviral Drugs
Antiretroviral drugs can control, but not cure, HIV in children
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Ukrainian Protesters Are Auctioning Off the Nose of a Massive Lenin Statue
Lenin’s ears are also, reportedly, up for grabs
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One Human Year Does Not Equal Seven Dog Years
No one knows where the dog years myth came from, but experts agree that it’s simply not true
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The Only Primate With a Toxic Bite Might Have Evolved to Mimic Cobras
Slow lorises have snake-like markings, postures and a hiss that all resemble the speckled cobra
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Cheetahs Spend 90 Percent of Their Days Sitting Around
When human presence forces cheetahs to expend more energy, however, it put the animals’ survival at risk
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See Depression-Era Photos from Your Hometown
Thousands of images collected to document rural life from 1934 to 1944 are available to peruse online through an interactive project
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The Man in the Moon Was Made By Radioactivity, Not Meteors
Differential cooling caused by radioactive material in the crust caused one of the Moon’s most distinctive features
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