Tanzania’s Lake Natron will soon resemble a couple’s resort for hundreds of thousands of East African lesser flamingos. The nomadic birds fly between alkaine soda lakes along the rift valley, […]
For most people, a scratch or wound that heals after a few days is fairly unremarkable, even expected. After all, it’s something that’s happened as long as we can remember. […]
This is a little too Blade Runner-esque for comfort, but it is one way Brazil is fighting extinction of their native species. Throughout Brazil’s richly diverse habitats stretching from the Amazon […]
But you can only see it if you live in Australia… or have the internet. The eclipse will slide into place at 2:35 p.m. Chicago time, or just after dawn […]
Oh, it’s a real thing (or it will be), and we would have loved to be a fly on the wall in this pitch meeting at Idaho State University. Resident […]
It seems like a pretty innocuous thing, but sitting can shorten your life. Another study is out, this time from the Archives of Internal Medicine, showing that prolonged sitting throughout […]
Polar bears aren’t the only bears losing their habitat due to global warming. A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change points to a big bump in the road […]
The UK seems to be on the right track when it comes to prosthetic limbs, especially with the BeBionic3 myoelectric hand. Like Zac Vawter’s leg, it’s controlled by electrical impulses from […]
Some would argue that beer-making is an art (it certainly produces art in many instances), but brewers know there’s a definitely science at work as well. And now one more element […]
You probably thought of hamster wheels hooked up to generators, right? Or maybe this commercial? The real story is actually far more bizarre. Researchers have discovered how to power electronic […]
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