A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.
A wild crow that has never seen you, never been trapped by you, never been harassed by you, can still recognize your face and scream at you from a tree because its parents told it to. That sentence ...
The 75-year-old Sardinian shepherd Tonino Tola, profiled by National Geographic during Dan Buettner’s original Blue Zones research in the early 2000s, walked at least five miles every day along the ...
The claim is arithmetically correct, and that is the least interesting thing about it. If every atom in every human body on Earth were stripped of its electron shells and crushed until the nuclei ...
The line, in one form or another, is one of the most cited things Albert Einstein is said to have written. The version that travels furthest is the one above: “The most incomprehensible thing about ...
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and come back with a shortlist of unusual objects, ...
An 1835 lithograph depicting the New York Sun’s fictitious lunar discoveries. Library of Congress (Popular Graphic Arts collection), public domain. On August 25, 1835, the New York Sun began telling ...
Cyanobacteria bloom in a shallow Michigan lake during the fall of 2024. Photo by Leon Katona. Public domain (USGS). In the summer of 2024, a small lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was ...
Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
In September 2024, the journal Science published one of the more striking pieces of quasi-experimental economics to appear in a peer-reviewed venue that year. Eyal Frank, an assistant professor at the ...
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, travelled a quarter of a million miles to the Sea of Tranquillity, struck a ...
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