Scientists Ranked The Most Dangerous And Toxic Pollutants in US Landfills
The United States is home to nearly 2,000 active landfills. Each day, these enormous piles of garbage can leach well over 2 million liters of liquid per site into the…
Scientists Thrilled to Observe The First Milliseconds of Gold Crystal Formation
We now know how gold crystals start to form at the atomic scale. For the first time, scientists have observed – and filmed! – the first milliseconds of gold crystal…
Scientists Discover Deep-Sea Microbes That Are Invisible to Our Immune System
Bacteria collected from more than a mile below the surface of the Pacific Ocean may have just blown one of immunology’s longest-held assumptions clean out of the water. The bacteria…
These Huge ‘Demon Ducks’ With Squished Brains Were an Extreme Evolutionary Experiment
Back when mega wombats, sheep-sized echidnas, and marsupial lions roamed the ancient lands of Australia, there also lived a gigantic flightless bird. Known by some as the ‘demon duck of…
This Discovery Just Changed What We Know About The Earliest Life Forms on Earth
At the core of just about every plant, algae, and blob of green pond scum on Earth sits a molecular engine for harvesting sunlight. Its only emissions are oxygen –…
We Finally Know The Genetic Reason Why This Bunny Walks on Its Front Paws
Selective breeding by humans has led to some incredibly odd and unfortunate pets over the years, and the sauteur d’Alfort rabbit is among the strangest of the lot. This rare…
Scientists Have Simulated The Primordial Quantum Structure of Our Universe
Peer long enough into the heavens, and the Universe starts to resemble a city at night. Galaxies take on characteristics of streetlamps cluttering up neighborhoods of dark matter, linked by…
After 25 Years, We Finally Know The Mystery Cause of Gruesome Bald Eagle Deaths
A mysterious neurodegenerative disease has been killing bald eagles and other animals at lakes across the United States. And after 25 years of sleuthing, researchers have finally figured out its…
One of The Earliest Stone Tool Types Could Date Back 2.6 Million Years, New Data Show
Figuring out when the earliest human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, since it was such an important evolutionary step. Remarkably, the projected…
We Have The First-Ever Confirmation of Alternating Sleep States in an Octopus
The flickering colors of a sleeping octopus seem to indicate something akin to an REM sleep state, scientists have found. In fact, as octopuses snooze, they distinctly cycle between two…
Global Warming Is ‘Fundamentally’ Changing The Structure of Our World’s Oceans
Climate change has wrought major changes to ocean stability faster than previously thought, according to a study published Wednesday, raising alarms over its role as a global thermostat and the…
Yep, Cheap Wine Really Does Taste Better if You Increase The Price Tag
In 2002, one of the most prestigious restaurants in New York City served four Wall Street workers its most expensive bottle of wine: a US$2,000 Mouton Rothschild from 1989. After…
Scientists Found a Key Neurological Switch That Makes Human Brains So Large
What is it about humans that separates us from non-human primates, our closest living relatives? One of the biggest differentiators, scientifically speaking, is the size of our much larger brains…
Thousands of Jellyfish Are Dying Worldwide, And ‘The Blob’ Could Play a Role
Like a tourist on a cruise ship, the by-the-wind sailor jellyfish (Velella velella) spends its days drifting aimlessly through the open sea, gorging itself on an endless buffet of complementary…