New Research
Even A/C Can't Keep Our Economies From Slacking Off on Hot Days
As global warming turns up the temperature on the planet, it's going to be tougher to get anything done
Now We Know Where Fat Goes When We Lose Weight
We breathe it out
The Cutest Climate Change Culprits: Arctic Ground Squirrels
By digging burrows in permafrost, Arctic ground squirrels help destabilize the vast stores of carbon in the soil
When Sperm Meets Egg, Zinc Sparks Fly
Billions of tiny zinc particles explode from the surface of mammalian eggs when a sperm cell touches down
Why the Pantheon Hasn’t Crumbled
Ancient Roman concrete has some benefits over modern equivalents
Pollution Is Turning the Taj Mahal Brown
Workers must periodically cover the Taj Mahal in clay to remove the pollutants stuck to its marble walls
You Wobble Like No Other Person on the Planet
Analysis of the frame movements in footage from head-mounted cameras is just as unique as a fingerprint
A Better Way Than Torture to Obtain Information: Acting Friendly
Friendly methods get information from suspects faster and more reliably, oh and they don't violate human rights
Bad Hangover? Blame It (Partly) On Your Parents
Susceptibility to hangovers is partly due to genetics
Killing Wolves Actually Leads to More Livestock Deaths
On the surface, killing wolves that kill sheep and cattle seems like a way to control predation, but the data paints a not-so-simple picture
Christmas Research Papers Tackle Goofy Problems in Medicine
The British Medical Journal's holiday issue includes an investigation of old magazines in waiting rooms and finds that men can be idiots
In the Past 40 Years, 105 City Neighborhoods Gentrified; 2,000 Slipped Further Into Poverty
America's Move Toward Concentrated Poverty
Scientists Finally Figure Out the “Big Bang” of Bird Evolution
The genomes of 45 birds contributed to the most in-depth bird evolutionary tree ever created
Superbugs Could Become a Top Cause of Death by 2050
If left unchecked, antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill more people than cancer by 2050
Conserving Tigers Could Hurt Leopards
When one predator returns, another can be displaced
The Ocean Contains Over Five Trillion Pieces of Plastic Weighing More than 250,000 Tons
These frightening figures represent the most robust estimate of marine plastic pollution calculated to date
By Absorbing Smells From Its Food, This Fish Gets Scent Camouflage
The harlequin filefish is a master of camoufalge
You've Never Seen Nerve Endings Like These
Scientists produce the most detailed images of nerve endings ever made
Typhoons Saved 13th Century Japan From Invasion
Geologic evidence supports historic accounts of the great "Kamikaze" of 1274 and 1281
Online Students Give Better Reviews to Professors They Think Are Male
Even if the teachers were actually women, if the students thought they were men, the bias stuck
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