Antarctica Was Once As Warm As Sunny California
Nearby polar regions got up to Florida-level temperatures
Scientists Confirm That Cats a) Are Pretty Smart, b) Don’t Really Care What You Want
Cats’ impressive individuality makes it hard to study their smarts
The Mississippi River Carries More Than Enough Sand to Rebuild Its Sinking Delta
The mighty Mississippi carries enough sand and silt to rebuild Louisiana’s disappearing marshes for the next 600 years
Mars’ Super-Thin Atmosphere May Mean that Flowing Water Was the Exception, Not the Rule
A new analysis suggests that Mars’ atmosphere was often too thin to support liquid water
Scurvy Plagued Columbus’ Crew, Even After the Sailors Left the Sea
Severe scurvy and malnutrition set the stage for the fall of La Isabela
The U.K. Is Weirdly Obsessed With Rhea Birds—Which Keep Escaping Their Owners
A rhea went on the lam in the U.K.—and is far from the first giant, flightless bird to do so
Real-Life True Blood Might Be Used in Trial Transfusions by 2016
Researchers in the U.K. have created the first man-made red blood cells of high enough quality to be introduced into the human body
The Big “Gravitational Wave” Finding May Have Actually Just Been Some Dust
A supernova remnant interacting with interstellar dust could have caused the signals interpreted to be gravitational waves
Pot Smokers’ Brains Are Different
But we can’t say for sure whether it’s pot that made them that way
Dogs That Should Be Guarding Sheep Are Mating With Wolves Instead
Intimate encounters between dogs and wolves are relatively common in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains
We Might Hit Our Cognitive Peak Before 24
As we age beyond about 24, we become mentally slower and slower
A Fully Vaccinated Woman Contracted And Then Spread the Measles
This is the first time health officials have encountered a Typhoid Mary-like situation for measles
Mid-Day Naps Can Be a Sign of Bad Health
People who frequently take naps tend to die younger than those who don’t, according to a new study
The American Dream Doesn’t Mean the Same Thing to White People And Minorities
While many see the American Dream including a home, not everybody thinks about that home the same way
In Need of a New Nostril? Scientists Can Grow One From Your Cartilage
Researchers in Switzerland just performed the first reconstructive nasal surgery using lab-grown cartilage
We Remember People We Met as Babies, Even If We Don’t Remember Being Babies
Babies can subconsciously remember people they’ve met, even if they don’t remember meeting them
Ice-Age Bees Uncovered at the La Brea Tar Pits
The samples were actually excavated back in 1970, but were set aside because there wasn’t a way to analyze them at the time
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