The View From Space as Wildfire Smoke Smothers Large Swaths of North America
Smoke from blazes in the western United States and Canada has blown across North America and even across the North Atlantic to Europe. ...read more
Month: July 2021
Cave Paintings May Depict Ice Age Sign Language
Ancient stencils of hands with "mutilated" fingers may actually show a type of sign language used for hunting or silent rituals. ...read more
Five Ways Humans Evolved to Be Athletes
An archaeologist explores human athletic paleobiology to explain how our prowess in sport has deep roots in evolution. ...read more
Did Static Electricity — Not Gus Grissom — Blow the Hatch of the Liberty Bell 7 Spacecraft?
Sixty years later, we present a plausible explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of the space race. ...read more
Hugging Is an Evolutionary Tool for Survival
There are biological reasons we hug it out. ...read more
The Other Magic Mushroom: Why a Canadian Startup is Suddenly Interested in the Fungus From Super Mario
Psyched Wellness wants to bring the Amanita muscaria fungus to the masses. But are we ready for another psychedelic mushroom boom? ...read more
How To Avoid Food-Borne Illness
After a meal, putting food away quickly is key to keeping it free from pathogens. ...read more
The First Atomic Bomb Created This ‘Forbidden’ Quasicrystal
Scientists once thought their structures impossible. Now, the discovery of the oldest man-made quasicrystal expand the world of nuclear forensics. ...read more
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The Secret Cleaning Power of Bacteria
Microbes are really good at eating a range of substances, so humans are putting them to work cleaning up our messes — and our art. ...read more