Why The Great Lakes Are Shrinking
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week that two of America's Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, are at their lowest water levels since recording began in 1918. The lakes were 29...
View ArticleThis Year's Flu Season Is Winding Down
Flu season is still upon us, but it appears to be winding down.As of Feb. 2, the percentage of people visiting the doctor for flu-like illness in the United States was 3.6 percent, down from 4.2...
View Article18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained In Plain English
A few months ago, Randall Munroe of the webcomic xkcd published a description of the Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most frequent words in English.Under this restriction, the rocket was called...
View ArticleCuriosity Grabs Mars Rock Samples For The First Time
NASA's Curiosity rover has drilled into a Martian rock and collected samples, marking the first time any robot has ever performed this complicated maneuver on the surface of another planet.The 1-ton...
View ArticleA Goat Ran Amok In Brooklyn On Thursday Night
If you're a goat escaping from a slaughterhouse, try to avoid running into a former goat herder.That's the lesson one runaway goat learned the hard way after a late-night breakout from a slaughterhouse...
View ArticleAnother Man Is In Intensive Care Because Of A Mysterious Virus From The...
A man who returned recently from the Middle East and Pakistan is under intensive care in a Manchester hospital where he has been confirmed as the first UK resident to be infected by a new form of...
View ArticleYour Brain Knows When Your Current Fling Has Long-Term Potential
Clues about whether a new romance will grow into a long-term relationship can be found hidden in the way our brains respond when we think about a new partner, scientists have found.Researchers have...
View ArticleThe French Are Turning Down Their Night Lights
The French are taking a stand against light pollution. Starting this summer, most non-residential buildings in the country will have to shut off their lights at night in order to “reduce the print of...
View ArticleWatch A Huge Glacier Ice Bridge Collapse
Amateur photographer Christian Grosso got a surprise recently when he visited a glacier in Argentina's Patagonia region: an enormous ice bridge connected to the glacier ruptured and fell, causing a...
View ArticleScientists Did Not Really Find 'Where Evil Lurks' In The Brain
Evil is alive and is lurking in the brains of certain individuals, if you believe news reports linked to a respected German neurologist. The news of the scientist's discovery, however, has attracted...
View ArticleEven Cheating Baboons Keep Their Affairs Secret
Between secret rendezvous, deleted messages and outright lies, people will go to great lengths to cover up unfaithful acts. But it now seems we aren't unique in our deception — gelada baboons also...
View ArticleHere's What Horse Meat Tastes Like
People throughout Ireland and the U.K. have been scandalized by revelations that some of their beef products (such as frozen beef lasagna) have actually been made with horse meat instead of beef.It was...
View Article5 Things You Probably Don't Want To Know About That Burger You're Eating
In the wake of the horse meat scandal spreading throughout Europe — which misled consumers about what animals they've even been eating, exactly— eaters around the world are taking a much closer look at...
View ArticleMonsanto Has Been Suing Small Farmers To Protect Its Seed Patents
The agricultural giant Monsanto has sued hundreds of small farmers in the United States in recent years in attempts to protect its patent rights on genetically engineered seeds that it produces and...
View ArticleBeing A 'Super-Taster' Isn't As Fabulous As It Sounds
If you're passionate about an art form, be it musical, visual or culinary, it can be galling when others claim to feel your beloved medium more intensely than you. Oh please, you might silently...
View ArticleArchaeologists Find One Of The Oldest Temples In The World In Peru
Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima, the Culture Ministry said.If the date...
View Article'Extremely Peculiar' Sea Animal Has Disposable Penis
Scientists reported Wednesday on the bizarre sex life of a sea slug that discards its penis after copulation. Then grows a new one."No other animal is known to repeatedly copulate using such...
View ArticleDark Space Cloud Spotted In The Middle Of Millions Of Stars
A dark gecko-shaped nebula nests among millions of stars about 6,000 light-years from the sun in an incredible new image from a telescope in Chile.The photo, released today (Feb. 13) by the European...
View ArticleGiant Black Holes Grow Even Faster Than We Thought
Giant black holes are famous for their appetites, but these matter-munching monsters are even greedier than scientists once thought, a new study suggests.The supermassive black holes that lurk at the...
View Article11 Strange Things You Need To Know About Your Heart
Your heart isn't gold. It isn't sweet. And don't put in on your sleeve — you'll make a mess!Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are 11 scientific facts about your ticker.1. Heart attacksThe most...
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