Science
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What Do We Owe Lab Animals?
The standard ethical guidelines encourage minimizing the use of, and harm to, animals used in research. Some experts propose an…
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Unlocking the Genes That Made Whales Into Giants
With names like titanosaurus and giganotosaurus, you’d be forgiven for thinking that dinosaurs were the most massive animals to ever…
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The Toxin That Helps Oyster Mushrooms Devour Worm Flesh
Consider the oyster mushroom. It’s a mild thing, a pert, often creamy-colored whorl of fungus that goes well with thyme…
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10 Mummified Crocodiles Emerge From an Egyptian Tomb
Found beneath an ancient dump, the mummies shed light on ancient Egyptian mummification practices and the many lives of a…
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Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather?
When the barometer drops, the hyperbole rises, and meteorologists aren’t happy about it.
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‘Polar Vortex’ Got You Baffled? Try This Extreme-Weather Guide
A handy explanation of some of the newer climatological verbiage.
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What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?
A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise…
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Let’s Hack the Universe
A popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard could it be to…
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Snarl, You’re on Candid Camera
Wildlife cameras in Wisconsin are capturing interspecies encounters — and providing evidence that human activity might make such meetings more…
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A Fossil Flower Trapped in Amber Had a Mistaken Identity for 150 Years
A study of the Baltic specimen offers new insights into what Europe’s climate was like some 35 million years ago.