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Crummy Weather Can Lead to Harsher Online Restaurant Reviews
Are you sure you didn’t like the food? Maybe it was just the weather…
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Byzantine Monks Built Walls With Asbestos, Too
In millennia past, asbestos has also been used to make stronger pottery and flame-proof napkins
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Watch This Hypnotic Time Lapse Video of Coral
Corals are animals, rooted to the ocean floor but capable of some hypnotically beautiful movement, as this time lapse video shows
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes, According to Science
Rather than acting as camouflage or social signals, zebra stripes seem to deter biting flies
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No-Kill Caviar Could Make Luxury Less Expensive
Given a particular protein and a nice massage, sturgeon give up their eggs without giving up their lives
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There Are Too Many Pink Salmon in the Pacific
Pink salmon populations are booming, at the expense of other species
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California’s Snowpack is 68 Percent Below Normal, Threatening Another Dry Summer
California’s snowpack is running low, a bad sign for a state plagued by drought
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Once 2,000 Tibetan Refugees Came to Nepal Each Year; Now It’s Fewer Than 200. Why?
Nepal is caving to pressure from China to ostracize and persecute Tibetans
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Sometimes Scientists Just Need to Be Left Alone
Proponents for alone time—Isaac Newton, included—think silence can be a precondition for a great breakthrough
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It Is Now Technically Possible to Stop an Earthquake
Scientists have devised a way to reflect seismic waves
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“Happy Disgust” Is a Newly Recognized Human Facial Expression
Basic emotions like happy, sad or angry blend in interesting ways on the landscape of the human face
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Heat Increases the Risk of Early-Term Delivery
As temperatures rise, delivery rooms see a peak in early-term babies
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Children Have to Worry About Identity Theft, Too
The rate of identity theft is five times higher among children than among adults
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Language Discrimination Goes Beyond Just Grammar
Even when candidates are all equally qualified, employers pick native speakers over those born abroad
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The Hunt For Giant Easter Eggs Across New York City Is On
Not just any eggs—260 egg-shaped sculptures that range from ornate to modern
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Ground Up Mummies Were Once an Ingredient in Paint
In 1964, the manufacturer who made Mummy Brown reportedly ran out of mummies to grind up
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Science Rewrites the Death of America’s Shortest-Serving President
William Henry Harrison may have died of typhoid fever
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America’s Favorite Sport Used to Be… Competitive Walking
Pedestrianism was popular in the late 19th century
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If Men Get Paid to Play College Sports, Title IX Says Women Do, Too
A labor board ruled that football players at Northwestern University are “employees” and have the right to form unions
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How a Single Act of Evolution Nearly Wiped Out All Life on Earth
A single gene transfer event may have caused the Great Dying
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