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No One Trusts Geoengineering—But Pretty Soon It’s Not Going To Be a Choice
We’re very quickly running out of time to deal with rising carbon emissions
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How Scientists Recorded the Music Inside One Woman’s Head
A patient was hallucinating musical scores, and researchers have managed to record it
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Grasshopper Gut Parasites Could Stop Ruinous Locust Swarms
The microbes confuse the chemical signals that tell pestilent locusts: swarm!
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We Burn Just Half the Calories Other Mammals Do
Our slow metabolism helps explain why it takes us so long to grow up—and why we live such long lives
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Ancient Walking Fish May Have Walked on All Fours
A fossilized pelvis shows the fish had functioning rear “legs”
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One More Point for Coffee: It Might Boost Memory-Making Abilities
Research indicates that two cups of caffeine-laced coffee might enhance your ability to remember certain details
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A Permit to Hunt a Critically Endangered Black Rhino Just Sold for $350,000
Proceeds will supposedly go toward conservation of the species
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Kids Start Forgetting Early Childhood Around Age 7
Memories of that awesome zoo trip? Those first few birthday cakes? All gone
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What’s the Real Effect of “16 and Pregnant”?
Don’t make major life choices based on something you saw on TV
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The Cold Snap Wasn’t Actually That Extreme, Global Warming Has Just Made Us Wimpy
The recent cold snap wouldn’t have been so unusual in the past
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These Slave-Making Ants Use Stealth, Not Force, to Take Prisoners
Chemical camouflage allow these tiny ants to sneak past enemies’ defenses and steal their babies
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The More Fires Firefighters Are Exposed to, the More Heat Resistant They Become
As firefighters are exposed to more and more fires, their bodies evolve a tolerance for those inhospitable environments
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International Space Station to Get a Four Year Life Extension
Then, in 2024, it has to crash into the ocean
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Emperor Penguins Have Some Tricks to Help Cope with Climate Change
Some penguin colonies live off the ice
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This Drug Turns Back Time in Your Brain, Until, Like a Kid, You Can Learn New Skills
By increasing neural plasticity, this drug could open your mind to new abilities
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Astronomers Find What May Be a Star Within a Star
The best candidate yet for an elusive Thorne-Żytkow Object
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The Dutch Nearly Beat James Cook to New Zealand
A shipwreck discovered off New Zealand dates to a time before Cook’s arrival
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Being the Victim of Racism Seems to Accelerate Aging
This study brings further evidence to the scientific belief that “social toxins” such as racism have a very real impact on people’s lives and health
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Expose Wounds to the Right Kind of Sounds, And They Heal Faster
Treatment with low-intensity ultrasound could help chronic wounds to heal
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Finally, an Opiate Test That Doesn’t Confuse Poppy Seeds With Heroin
The days of heroin users leaning on bagels as a scapegoat are probably numbered
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