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People Really Need to Stop Bringing Giant African Land Snails Into the US
Sixty-seven baseball-sized giant African land snails were confiscated at the Los Angeles International Airport
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The Ongoing Drought Will Cost California $2.2 Billion and 17,000 Jobs
California is facing its greatest water loss on record, and it’s not likely to get better any time soon
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We Choose Friends Who Are Genetically Similar to Us
On average, our friends are like the genetic equivalents of fourth cousins
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Yet other researchers think that different factors, such as the quality and timing of practice, matter most
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Astronomers Are Doing Real Science With Space Photos They Found on Flickr
Want to help research? Grab a camera and point it to the heavens
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Kiribati’s Climate Change Plan B: Buy a New Island Home
With sea levels rising, Kiribati is planning for the future by investing in a whole new island
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Yes, Yellowstone’s Roads Just Melted. No, There’s No Reason to Panic
Yellowstone’s melting roads, while neat, aren’t as unusual as you’d think
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There’s No Laundry in Space, So NASA is Trying to Make Clothes That Don’t Get Smelly
Astronauts got a shipment of fresh, hopefully odor-resistant gym clothes
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Revenge of the Polar(esque) Vortex
Questions remain as to whether the coming cold snap is a true polar vortex, but either way, the eastern U.S. is about to get much colder
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We Know Physics is Largely White and Male, But Exactly How White and Male is Still Striking
Most current physics students will likely never have an African American physics teacher, says a new survey
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The North Pole Could Soon Drift Over to Siberia
Earth’s magnetic field seems to be weakening and potentially migrating
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HIV Has Reappeared in the Mississippi Baby Who Was Supposedly Cured of The Disease
The findings cast doubt on our ability to infected rid newborns of HIV, at least for the time being
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Human Skin Can Detect Odors, Some of Which May Help Trigger Healing
Olfactory cells occur all over the body, not just in the nose
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A Deadly Fungus Is Wiping Out Frogs and Toads—But Some Can Develop Resistance
Scientists hope it might be possible to develop a vaccine to the fungus, based on the frog and toad’s immunity
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There’s a Very Good Reason Explosives Are Being Set Off on Mount St. Helens
The explosions will let geologists peek inside the volcano’s magma chamber
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Ok, Now There’s an Actual, Official Contest to Name New Exoplanets
The International Astronomical Union is throwing their own exoplanet naming contest
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It’s a Sad Day for ISEE-3, As the Bid to Save the Long-Lost Satellite Fails
We can’t help but feel bad for the little lonely satellite
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Chopping Down African Forests Increases Human Exposure to Ebola
Habitat loss brings humans and animals into closer contact, increases the spread of disease
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Watch the Unnerving Gait of This 410 Million-Year-Old Arachnid
Working from well-preserved fossils, paleontologists reproduced the trigonotarbids’ walk
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A Quarter of Americans Are Stressed Out—And That’s Probably a Massive Underestimate
Health, family and monetary problems are top causes of stress, as are raising a teenager or being a single parent
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