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What Would the Planet That Smashed Into Earth and Created the Moon Have Been Like?
Scientists announced that they have found traces of Theia in moon rocks
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China Is Tearing Down Mountains to Build Cities
Land creation projects are proceeding apace without scientific research to back them up
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Here Are the Five Best Ways to Fight Climate Change, Ranked by Scientists
Given their “feasibility, cost-effectiveness, risk, public acceptance, governability and ethics,” these are the best ways to fight global warming
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This Cologne Makes Cows Smell Like Humans, So Mosquitos Bite Them Instead of Us
California company receives Gates Foundation grant to explore a unique kind of pest control
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Spiders Get Information From the Vibrations of Their Webs
Depending on the frequency, a vibrating thread of silk can tell a spider if it needs to repair its home or go collect a snared snack
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The Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Neutrons Was Auctioned Off This Week
The prize fetched more than Faulkner’s Nobel, but less than Crick’s
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This Rocky Exoplanet is Really, Really Big—Too Big
Kepler-10c is a rocky planet that’s too big to be a rocky planet
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The Universe Is Beautiful in This New Hubble Image
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image 2014 is stunning
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The Fourth Case of Mad Cow Disease Ever Reported in the U.S. Was Just Confirmed
The victim likely picked up the disease while traveling abroad
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It’s Now Hurricane Season, But It Might Be an Easy One
A storm rated category 3 or higher hasn’t made landfall in the U.S. since 2005
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The National Collection of Yeast Cultures stores thousands of strains of yeast to keep them from disappearing
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California’s Carbon Emissions Today Are Bigger Than the Entire Country’s in 1888
A new analysis looks at how countries’ carbon emissions changed since 1850
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You Can Now Get High-Speed Internet on the Moon
Last fall NASA and MIT researchers demonstrated a new laser-based long-distance data transmission system
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I Think, Therefore I Am a Fruit Fly
Researchers found that even fruit flies seem deliberate over decisions
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A Third of All People on Earth Are Overweight Or Obese
Obesity rates are rising across the board
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Zebras Make the Longest Migratory Journey of Any of Africa’s Land Animals
Zebras travel twice as far as North America’s migratory champion, the mule deer
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The latest innovation in spaceflight: new rodent enclosures
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Humans Gave Up Our Strength to Support Our Big Heads
Evolution may have traded muscle mass for big brains
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When Gay Men Become Parents, Their Brains Act Like Both Straight Mothers’ And Fathers’ Brains
In the absence of a mother, gay men’s brains become blind to gender and step up to the full task of parenthood
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Female Pigs Respond Differently to Batches of Sperm Carrying Mostly X Or Mostly Y Chromosomes
In an experiment, mother pigs’ gene expression changed depending on the sperm type they were fertilized wtih
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