75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
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Affluence could be our real downfall.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Maybe you’ve been wondering if you’re seeing one persistent squirrel or a rotating cast of characters.
Scientists are befuddled by where the shark gets most of its food.
Turns out chitin is quite useful when you need a wrench.
We don’t know with 100% certainty where SARS-CoV-2 first came from or how it first infected humans. But not all options are equally likely.
Avocado evolved in the warming climates of Central America during the Neogene period, roughly 10 million years ago.
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
Crocodiles have been called “living fossils.” That is, the species has remained unaltered for vast periods of geologic time. They’ve become so perfectly adapted to their ecological niche that millions […]
These pink feathered folk form complex social networks and are choosy about who they spend their time with, according to a new study.
If Arctic ice continues to melt at its projected rate, the bears will go extinct due to starvation by the end of the century according to a first-ever projected timeline.
“Our mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food technology by 2035,” said Patrick O. Brown at the 2020 Web Summit.
Researchers decoded the love signals of lizards “spoken” through chemical signals.
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
A new research article states that the obesity epidemic is affecting more than just waistlines.
An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?
A new study examines the under-researched area of water theft around the world.
The raw ingredients just weren’t there. Thankfully, their predecessors were. Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically […]
Instead of looking forward, we should be consulting the past.
How an environmental theology class opened my eyes—and mind—to my biblical responsibility.
An ecological silver bullet is missing the target altogether.
Researchers figure out the infectious periods of coronavirus on cardboard, metal and plastic.
Switching over to a vegan-based diet can drastically cut CO2 emissions. But will Americans actually change their diet?
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.