Tag: nature

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 ...

As the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but (discounting that vinegar is actually a great way to trap fruit flies), there’s an even better method: ...

In 2020, scientists claimed to have found a sign of life on Venus: hints of a stinky gas called phosphine that’s made by microbes on Earth. The claim was swiftly ...