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Here’s What The Solar Eclipse Looked Like From Space
As they orbited the earth, a satellite and an astronaut captured another side of the sun’s disappearing act
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We’re Taking All the Water Out of the Ground And Causing Sea Levels to Rise
Pumping water out of aquifers at the rate we do doesn’t just threaten the water supply, it also exacerbates the effects of climate change
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It’s Hard to Protect Arctic Mammals When We Don’t Know How Many Live There
Only a handful of animal populations are well counted — leaving researchers in the dark about how threatened the others are
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Too Much Tech Could Be Causing Nearsightedness…But Not in the Way You Might Think
Forget eye strain—too much time indoors could cause myopia
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Beetle Species, Weirdly, Almost Never Go Extinct
The world is disproportionately filled with beetles—now, a new study suggests that’s because few species have ever been wiped out
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Wikipedia Editing Shows That Different Countries Have Different Sets of Interests
New analysis shows that interests are local, not global
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You Can Thank the Ancient Maya for Your Grocery Store’s Papaya
New research suggests the Mesoamerican civilization was responsible for first cultivating the hermaphrodite version of the plant favored by growers
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U.K. to Create the World’s Largest Continuous Marine Reserve
The immaculate waters around the storied Pitcairn Islands are to be protected from illegal fishing and mining efforts
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Chimps Will Work Harder to Get Their Favorite Foods
An experimental setup shows that chimps will travel farther to get a more preferred reward
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Watching Cooking Shows Could Make You Fat
Put down the remote—new research links cooking shows, higher BMI
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Parasites Linked to Cannibalism
A tiny creature makes shrimp more likely to eat their own
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Remote Controlled Bug-Bots Could be First Responders of the Future
Scientists studying how beetles steer themselves in flight gather research that may have implications far beyond understanding bug biology
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Why are Dead Geese Falling From the Sky in Idaho?
Over 2,000 birds have been felled by fast-moving avian cholera
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Science Is Still Unclear About the Evolutionary Origin of the Anus
A newly published scientific review attempts to “get to the bottom” of how animals acquired what some might call the most indecent part of the body
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There’s an Invader in the International Space Station
An Invader mosaic has found its way to space
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Did the Age of Humans Begin in 1610?
Debate over when the Anthropocene began is starting to narrow in on a few dates — 1610, when the Old World met the New, is one promising candidate
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Adorable Monkey New to Science Identified in Threatened Rainforest
Researchers in the Brazilian rainforest describe a previously undocumented species of titi monkey whose habitat faces man-made threats
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A Hint That a Saturnian Moon Could Have Hydrothermal Vents—And Support Life
Grains of silica from Saturn’s magnetosphere likely came from Enceladus and may mean the moon has hydrothermal vents
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Scary Lobster-Like Fossil Was Once One of the Earth’s Largest Animals
One of the earliest arthropods was giant, weird-looking—and played a big role in the course of evolutionary history
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