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Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
ÄIO’s fermentation process creates healthy, sustainable oils and fats by upcycling low-value industry organics.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we're relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here's our place in natural history.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota's largest patch of old-growth trees.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
A common weed uses uncommon types of photosynthesis.
The war in Ukraine is unlikely to trigger a catastrophic nuclear meltdown. Physics and smart engineering are the reasons why.
It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
Did fire change the development of the human brain?
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
Decades ago, a disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. Chernobyl? No. Banqiao dam in China.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.