Tag: nature

Holiday hangover season is upon us, and murmurs of Dry January are back. The popular month of alcohol abstinence has become tradition for people hoping to hit “reset” with the ...

An artist's illustration of the various exoplanets found, with rows of colorful planets of all colors and sizes over a dark background (Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) This ...

Think back to some of your core memories–meeting a spouse, getting a job you really wanted, or finding out someone you loved had died. Some are pretty easy to recall, ...

There is currently no way to completely reverse the damage and paralysis that results from a spinal cord injury. One of the biggest obstacles is that neurons die and can’t ...

We're all guilty of replying something like "in other news, water's wet" when someone states the obvious. However, is water truly wet, or does it just make something else wet? ...

While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental

Carving an artificial harbor out of Alaska’s remote northwest coast would take just an instant, claimed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1958.  They’d just bury six atomic bombs under ...

A new study could offer some hope for reinstating and rejuvenating old memories. The idea builds off a theory based around "mental time travel," which suggests mentally traveling back to ...

While many science books would have you believe the Earth’s lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it’s actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are master migrators. Some populations of this  baleen whale species travel upwards of 5,000 miles per year from ...