Biology Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s — it revived the forest August 23, 2017
News Tiniest ‘monster trucks’ race over a fraction of a width of the human hair in the first NanoRace August 23, 2017
News Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions August 22, 2017
Anthropology Book Review: ‘Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve’ August 22, 2017
Environmental Issues Trump Administration reverses ban on plastic water bottles in America’s national parks. ‘Corporate agenda is king,’ say environmentalists August 22, 2017
Health Increasing the price of US cigarettes by just one dollar per pack would lead to one million people kicking the habit August 21, 2017
Mind & Brain Learning and exploration might drive teenagers’ risky, bad decisions, not poor impulse control August 21, 2017
History Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares August 21, 2017 - Updated on August 22, 2017
Health Preliminary results suggests probiotic immunotherapy cures peanut allergy four years after treatment August 18, 2017
Science Scientists use the world’s smallest chisel to investigate dagger-wielding bacteria August 18, 2017
Health Finally, a large-scale probiotics trial is successful — it combats infant sepsis August 18, 2017
Environmental Issues Ocean exploration reveals trove of natural diversity off Cuba’s shores August 18, 2017
Health Scientists make healthy sperm in the lab, raising hope for those suffering from genetic male infertility August 18, 2017
Mind & Brain Talking in a foreign language makes our decision more about utility, less about emotion August 18, 2017
Animals How algae prepared the ground for complex life 650 million years ago August 17, 2017 - Updated on November 28, 2018
Offbeat Untouched 106 year old fruitcake found in the Antarctic — it’s probably still edible August 17, 2017
Health Drug-resistant candida outbreaks in the UK despite hospital efforts to control it August 17, 2017
Environment Missing link dinosaur bridges the gap between vegetarians and meat eating dinosaurs August 17, 2017 - Updated on August 24, 2023
Environmental Issues Trump Forest wants to compensate for the POTUS’ climate policy by planting 100 new billion trees August 16, 2017
Agriculture Fish farming could cover our demand for seafood one hundred times over, paper estimates August 16, 2017
Agriculture Popular pesticides are killing of bumblebees by preventing them from laying eggs August 16, 2017
Geology New tectonic plate discovered off the cost of Ecuador August 16, 2017 - Updated on September 21, 2023
News Nanotech makes solar panels literally green, hopefully making them more appealing August 15, 2017
Home science Chicago tree map reveals intriguing pattern: trees seem to reduce crime rate August 15, 2017
Environment Scientists find 91 new volcanoes miles beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet August 15, 2017 - Updated on February 14, 2024
Environment Pakistan just planted one billion trees to tackle deforestation and climate change August 15, 2017 - Updated on May 4, 2020
Computer Science & IT A history of how computers went from stealing your heart, to stealing your job August 14, 2017 - Updated on May 4, 2023
Climate Why sea levels around Finland and Sweden are dropping while the rest of the world is drowning August 14, 2017 - Updated on August 15, 2017
News Elon Musk’s AI just beat the pros at Dota 2 — one of the most popular and complex computer games August 14, 2017
