Surrounding counties boast even higher increases.
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A review of the global “wall” that divides rich from poor.
Are we witnessing evolution in real time?
Ocean Conservancy has collected more than 60 million butts since the ’80s.
After 13.8 billion years, there’s still a whole lot that’s changing as time goes on. With each new year that comes upon us, there are a slew of new events awaiting […]
For the Japanese in World War II, surrender was unthinkable. So unthinkable that many soldiers continued to fight even after the island nation eventually did surrender.
The cosmic story of us wasn’t inevitable, but the culmination of many chance events. By the time our planet was four billion years old, the rise of large plants and animals […]
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
If you’re wondering whether the blast wave or the radiation would kill us first, you’re asking the wrong question. As far as raw explosive power goes, no other cataclysm in […]
Most of the Moon’s effects on Earth are small and imperceptible. But for the grunion, it’s absolutely essential. Although it’s the closest astronomical body to Earth, the Moon is still […]
It has experts baffled.
Beefless meat enters the mainstream.
A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
Swirling in the Pacific Ocean is a loose patch of garbage that measures 1 million square miles—about three times the size of France. Now, one organization is beginning to clean it up.
Think you’ve seen sand? You haven’t seen sand.
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The Spilhaus Projection may be more than 75 years old, but it has never been more relevant than today.
To raise awareness on one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, the team partnered up with Adidas and Parley, a campaign group working to stop waste plastic getting into the oceans.
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
New evidence emerges that microplastics eaten by marine animals may be traveling up the food chain to our plates.
GenTech aren’t happy about how their data is being collected and used.
The next gold rush might take place in our sewers.
If we ruin the night sky too severely, ground-based astronomy could suffer tremendously. Here’s why space is no replacement. There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, […]
Tracking project establishes northern Argentina is wintering ground of Swainson’s hawks
Chinese scientists find a 600-million-year-old creature.
…and hopes for big benefits.
You’d be amazed at what you can learn from even one single pixel. Over the past decade, owing largely to NASA’s Kepler mission, our knowledge of planets around star systems beyond […]
Barbara Tversky takes an outdated idea to task in Mind in Motion.