Meet the People who Make Your Globes
It turns out the process of making high end globes is both fascinating and beautiful
Three Ancient Rivers, Long Buried by the Sahara, Created a Passage to the Mediterranean
One river system, called the Irharhar, appears to have been a particularly popular travel route, corroborated by both model simulations and artifacts
Designers Are Trying to Build an Invisible Skyscraper in South Korea
Most architects want everybody to see their buildings. But in South Korea, designers are working to achieve exactly the opposite: an invisible skyscraper
Eating Breakfast Probably Won’t Help You Lose Weight
As much as researchers themselves want to believe that breakfast helps people lose weight or keep it off, the evidence is far from conclusive
Watch This Woman Slowly Transform From Toddler to Elderly Woman
The idea behind Danielle, who is based on a real person, is “that something is happening but you can’t see it but you can feel it, like aging itself”
Modern Materials Make Houses Burn More Quickly
What used to take half an hour now lasts mere minues
Half of Children That Die Before Age Five Live in Just Five Countries
6.6 million children died before their first birthday last year, but the good news is that number is going down
Will Women Ever Overtake Men in Endurance Events?
When it comes to super long distances, women are catching up to men
Here’s What We Thought Earth Would Look Like from Space
Before we actually went to space, we had some ideas about what Earth might look like
Orangutans Plan And Share Their Routes Before Hitting the Road
The authors suspect that other great apes and species of intelligent animals likely use similar communication strategies
Google Street View Goes to the Galapagos
Follow in Darwin’s footsteps, starting on San Cristobal Island and then venturing to Floreana Island and North Seymour Island
Two Dozen Corpses, Beheaded Around 1,400 Years Ago, Found in a Cave in Mexico
In a cave in Mexico, the disembodied corpses of dozens of people
233,000 Gallons of Molasses Spilled in Hawaii, Killing Everything
This might sound like the beginning of a cartoon, but it’s not. Molasses is bad for wildlife, and the officials are dealing with an environmental disaster
Elephants Can Distinguish Between the Growl of a Hungry Tiger And a Hungry Leopard
Farmers may be able to use growl-broadcasting, motion-triggered speakers to deter elephants from raiding their crops
North Korea May Have Just Restarted its Nuclear Program
Steam coming from a mothballed plutonium plant could mean North Korea is resuming its weapons program
Australia’s New Prime Minister Thinks Climate Science Is “Highly Contentious”
Tony Abbott’s Liberal campaign slogan of “Chose real change” may turn out to be unsettlingly on the mark
Valley Fever: The Fungal Spores that Plague Archaeologists
When you spend your time digging in dirt, you get exposed to all sorts of nasty spores
Hear Shakespeare As It Was Meant To Be Heard
Accents change with time, rendering some of Shakespeare’s rhymes obsolete
This Is Why Your Converse Sneakers Have Felt on the Bottom
Felt on your sneakers is there not for function, but for economics - shoes with fuzzy soles are taxed less when imported than those with rubber ones
Your Parents’ Music Will Be Stuck in Your Head Forever—And You’ll Like It
Deep down, new research finds, kids may be secretly enjoying themselves and creating fond attachments to oldies songs that still rock their parents out
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