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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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Watch This Adorable Mammal Hatch From an Egg
A 1974 nature video shows a spiny anteater hatching
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Scientists Will Soon Be Trawling Through All of Your Tweets
Twitter is opening up their entire archives to researchers
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Ordinary People Respond More Strongly to “Global Warming” Than to “Climate Change”
Americans respond differently to the same scientific concept depending on the terminology being used
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This Software Can Screen for Autism
What expert? This autism screening software works just as well.
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That Anxiety in Your Gut Controls Your Brain More Than You Know
Your stomach can be scared… and not just of being empty
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The Very Large, Very Extinct Elephant Bird Is the Closest Cousin to the Wee, Flightless Kiwi
Proof that you should never judge a bird by its feathers
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Even 2-Year Olds Are Being Prescribed Ritalin
There may be as many as 10,000 American toddlers on stimulant drugs for ADHD
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This Robotic Arm Is About To Repair Itself in Space
Space’s newest Mr. Fix-It is a robot that can update its own hardware
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This Scientist Fell Down a 70-Foot Crevasse in the Himalayas But Managed to Claw His Way Out
Rescue teams finally reached him the following day
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