Snow covers the peaks in Canada’s Northwest Territories today. Cold. Silent. But go back 500 million years? It was an ancient seabed. A kitchen...
Ian Vanveen is twenty. A sophomore in college. Broke, basically. So he started making things with his hands to save cash. "I didn’t have...
They have six gills. Most sharks have five. Just a small anatomical rebellion against the norm, really, but it’s the only thing people seem...
Proof Positive, our weekly math newsletter, is usually friendly enough. You get it every Tuesday afternoon if you sign up. It’s the kind of...
Wind energy is good for the planet. It isn't perfect though. Those giant spinning blades kill birds. And bats too. Estimates suggest two to...
Walk into a grocery store today.
It feels like a marketing battlefield. You’ve got paleo ketchup. Soda designed for your gut microbes. Chips made from...
You know that sound.
It happens right when you need it least. You press a button. Then—SCHLURK.
It is loud. Aggressive. Violent.
You are six thousand miles...
American passengers are home. Or at least the ones involved in that deadly cruise ship outbreak are. They are under a microscope.
Seventeen days in....
Size is a prison for engineering.
If you want to build a drone that fits in your palm, you cannot afford GPS. You cannot carry...
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently convened an expert panel that has reignited a fierce debate over testosterone therapy. The committee...
Weight regain is the most persistent challenge in obesity management. Whether patients lose weight through strict dieting or by using popular GLP-1 medications like...
A coalition of 1,500 members and supporters of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has issued a stark warning regarding the...
A discarded booster stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is predicted to impact the lunar surface on August 5, creating a new crater...
A significant wildfire has broken out within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, raising immediate concerns about safety at the site of the world’s worst nuclear...
