Headlines are currently circulating about the “Windscreen Phenomenon,” the concept that bugs no longer hit a car’s windshield very often because insect populations are plummeting. It...
The two galaxies closest to our Milky Way galaxy are called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. They are irregular dwarf galaxies both orbiting ours, actually...
Recently the seventh season of Game of Thrones concluded, attracting nearly 17 million viewers. The final season won’t come until 2019, and there is no release...
While up to 30% of Houston’s county (Harris County) is underwater, people are pointing out that Harris County has more toxic waste sites than any county...
A new ballot measure in California could decriminalize the active chemical in psychedelic mushrooms (psilocybin) as early as 2018. It would exempt people aged 21 and...
A 3,700-year-old cracked clay tablet rests in the Columbia University collections, marked “Plimpton 322.” It was recently discovered that the tablet is actually a series of...
For the first time, lab experiments have provided strong evidence for the existence of “diamond rain” in the interior of “ice giant” planets Uranus and Neptune....
The Great Barrier Reef off the northeastern coast of Australia is known as the world’s largest living organism, or largest structure containing living organisms. Mainstream science...
