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Some wildfires will always be unavoidable. But nature, thankfully, recovers relatively quickly. The past few years have brought some devastating wildfires to large parts of the American west. A wildfire […]
Have we turned the corner of a cold winter?
The Megachile pluto is about four times the size of a honeybee.
New research suggests that a healthy supply of locally-sourced beer helped maintain the unity of the widespread Wari civilization for about 500 years.
Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.
Your co-workers could be causing your insomnia.
Not all states are feeling the effects equally.
In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That’s more than ever before.
Are these two laws universal throughout nature?
Trees may avoid touching each other in the forest canopy creating giant, backlit jigsaw puzzles from a light-sharing phenomenon called ‘crown shyness’.
While the web of dark matter (purple) might seem to determine cosmic structure formation on its own, the feedback from normal matter (red) can severely impact galactic scales. Both dark […]
Sloths are unfairly ridiculed and underappreciated animals, says zoologist and filmmaker Lucy Cooke.
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The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.
They’re positioned as they are for a good reason.
Long hidden under trees, it’s utterly massive.
America’s corn syrup fields are big enough to cover all its airports and railroads, and other surprising lessons from a ‘tidied-up’ map of America’s land use zones
The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.
The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.
Biodiversity refers to genetic diversity within species, diversity between species, and diversity of ecosystems. We take a look at all three.
Think walking is void of philosophy? Nietzsche and Gros are here to say you’re wrong.
What would you do if money was no object?
Christmas has many pagan and secular traditions that early Christians incorporated into this new holiday.
Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.
Orangutans join humans and bees in a very exclusive club
Seemingly inconsequential decisions can alter ecosystems, as a recent Australian study shows.