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Microplastics are everywhere in the ocean food chain. A new study suggests they might have another route into terrestrial animals.
Our motion through space is undeniable. So why can’t we feel it? Our planet isn’t the stationary place we feel it to be beneath our feet, but rather moves in an […]
In her new documentary, Maxine Trump tackles the topic of choosing not to procreate.
Over two billion people regularly eat insects. Why are Americans so squeamish?
Can learning about the great white shark help protect us from cancer?
Protected animals are feared to be headed for the black market.
It’s been spectacularly confirmed by observation, but theoretically, it couldn’t have been any other way. If the Sun were to spontaneously cease emitting light, we wouldn’t know about it for about […]
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
With the help of positive psychology and the happiness industry, many of us seem to be running in the exact opposite direction of happiness.
The study was small: 8 people from 8 different countries. But the findings have alarmed scientists.
Just ten rivers are responsible for up to 95% of all river-borne plastic trash that ends up in the sea. Silver lining: cleaning them up would have a huge positive impact.
Thanks to museum curators, there’s no shortage of the stuff.
A new computer model suggests that the 21st century will have more frequent hurricanes of staggering force.
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
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Our Sun will someday run out of fuel. Here’s what it will look like when that happens. The fate of our Sun is unambiguous, determined solely by its mass. If all […]
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
The Earth is getting warmer, and humans are the cause. This is why. Let’s play pretend for a moment. Pretend, if you can, that you’ve never heard about the idea of […]
It makes no “makes no economic or energy sense.”
Here are four separate ways you can prove it, even 50 years after-the-fact. 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969, humanity took our first footsteps on the surface of another […]
They’re creating an unprecedented map of Earth to help government leaders make better decisions in regard to climate change.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
The findings of the controversial study flew in the face of past research on ice gains in Antarctica.
Technology holds the promise of a better future, but our footprint on the planet threatens to undo all our dreams and progress. It’s pretty easy to look at the world […]
The greatest danger to our planet is not pollution or climate change, but our own despair.
It was “one of the most complex and intricate endeavors” SpaceX has ever undertaken.