A “seafood mafia” is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China’s appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.
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The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
Philosophers Massimo Pigliucci and Greg Lopez discuss how Stoicism can help us gain perspective on our emotions and act with intention in the world.
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
A new study used artificial intelligence to analyze relationship data from thousands of couples.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
Fractal patterns are noticed by people of all ages, even small children, and have significant calming effects.
Thinning forests in the Western United States can save billions of gallons of water per year and improve conservation efforts.
“Interacting” with nature through virtual reality applications had especially strong benefits, according to the study.
The 385-million-year-old fossils show that trees evolved modern features millions of years earlier than previously estimated.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
A new theory suggests that dreams’ illogical logic has an important purpose.
Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it’s an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?
Scientists think an insect similar to the modern millipede crawled around Scotland 425 million years ago, making it the first-ever land-dweller.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
Pandemics have historically given way to social revolution. What will the post-COVID revolution be?
If you want to know what the Universe is like, you have to look at it in the right way. Only by observing it can we know what the Universe is […]
California’s Bobcat Fire has reached Mount Wilson Observatory’s doorstep. 100 years ago, our understanding of the Universe was very different from what it is today. Einstein’s General Relativity, our theory […]
“You dream about these kinds of moments when you’re a kid,” said lead paleontologist David Schmidt.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
The biggest risk comes from doing nothing at all.
A new study at UPenn found that effective learning includes mistakes—just not too many.
Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.
Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?
Norway plans to pay Gabon $150 million to protect its vast network of rainforests.
New research sees dogs checking a North-South axis on their way home.
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.