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Giant Moths Have Descended on Malaysia, And No One Knows Why
Giant moths are making a mass appearance in Southeast Asia
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How to Actually Remember What You Read: Print a Newspaper of Internet Articles
Now instead of just saving online articles to read later, you can create your own newspaper
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When Homo Sapiens Began to Emerge, Herpes Was Already Waiting
Herpes first evolved in chimpanzees before colonizing the cells of Homo erectus
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When Fire Ants Build Rafts, There Are No Free Loaders
When fire ants form floating balls, not a single leg or antennae goes to waste
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This Ten Year Old Has Already Graduated From High School in California
Words like “prodigy” and “genius” are often used to describe pre-teen Tanishq Abraham
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At Least 47,000 Children Have Illegally Crossed the Border Since October
And tens of thousands more are expected to cross before the year’s out
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New Road To Machu Picchu Discovered
The nearly-mile-long road was built over 500 years ago by the Inca, and appears to be intact
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In Egypt, 99 Percent of Women Have Been Sexually Harassed
The government recently moved to criminalize sexual harassment
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An attempt at urban farming runs afoul of city ordinances in Detroit
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We’ll Test Our New “Flying Saucer” One Day Soon, NASA Promises
June 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 14 were all potential launch dates, but each time weather conditions precluded the test
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George H.W. Bush Celebrated His 90th Birthday by Jumping Out of a Helicopter
At 90, Bush is still a decade short of being the world’s oldest skydiver
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Pittsburgh Is Struggling to Maintain Its 45,454 Public Steps
The city budget isn’t enough to keep up with costly and logistically difficult repairs, so some stairways might come down
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Polar Carnivores Might Have Originated in Tibet
A new fox fossil lends weight to the idea that many carnivores now found in the Arctic originated in what is now Tibet
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As the Ice Melts, Spying in the Arctic is Hitting Cold War Levels
The prospect of resources and shipping lanes has sparked tensions in the Arctic
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See Samuel Beckett’s Doodles of James Joyce And Charlie Chaplin
The six-notebook handwritten manuscript has been in private hands since the 1960s
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When People Are Stressed Financially, Their Racial Biases Escalate
White study participants view biracial faces as “more black” when times are tough
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Europe Was Probably Colonized By Island Hoppers
New genetic research shows that people and agriculture likely spread across the Mediterranean by going from island to island
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Chile Sides With Environmentalists and Communities, Rejects $8 Billion Dam Proposal
Environmentalists are calling the decision “a land-mark”
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Who Does Wikipedia Think Is Bigger Than Jesus?
Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus is Wikipedia’s most influential person, according to one measurement
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Thousands of Lovers’ Locks Collapsed Part of an Overloaded Bridge in Paris
The trend affects bridges throughout Europe and in some places in the U.S., too
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