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Too Much Deer Pee Is Changing Northern Forests
The booming deer population in the northern United States is bad for the animal's beloved hemlocks, a new study finds.During Michigan winters, white-tailed deer converge on stands of young hemlocks for...
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Newly Discovered Viking Voyage Could Have Been The First Contact Between...
Some 1,000 years ago, the Vikings set off on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay in modern-day Newfoundland, Canada, new evidence suggests.The journey would have taken the Vikings, also called the Norse, from...
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The Oldest Known Human Tumor Was Just Found Inside A Neanderthal's Rib
The oldest human tumor ever found — by more than 100,000 years — has been discovered in the rib of a Neanderthal.The bone, excavated more than 100 years ago in Croatia, has been hollowed out by a tumor...
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Disgraced Author Jonah Lehrer Just Got A Deal To Write A Book About Love
NEW YORK (AP) — Jonah Lehrer, the best-selling author who has acknowledged using fake quotes and had two books pulled, has reached agreement on a new book.Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that...
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This Extinct Frog Was Rediscovered In 2011 — But The World Only Noticed This...
What was once lost has now been found.Well, it was actually found about a year and a half ago, but most people just seem to be noticing now.The Hula painted frog was probably never common. The species,...
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Life Was Surprisingly Good For The Only Man To Have Survived Two Nuclear Bomb...
Tsutomu Yamaguchi died from stomach cancer. The cancer part perhaps isn’t surprising given that Yamaguchi is currently the only person officially recognized by the Japanese government as having lived...
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The 'Indiana Jones' Of Egypt Says There's Treasure Inside The Great Pyramid
TORONTO — Zahi Hawass is back.The famous, and at times controversial, Egyptologist is free of legal charges, free to travel and is launching a worldwide lecture tour with the aim of getting tourists...
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The Obama Administration Plans To End All Federal Protection Of Gray Wolves
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday will propose lifting most of the remaining federal protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that would end four decades...
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A Massive, Unauthorized 'Man Cave' Was Found In An EPA Warehouse
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dedicated to preserving natural spaces, but apparently "man caves" are not considered critical wildlife habitat.That's why the agency dismantled the...
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Scientists Invent An Invisibility Cloak That Can Hide Data In Time
It sounds like a spectacular failure: this new technology works less than half the time and only for half the parties involved.But a paper published in Nature today announces that scientists have found...
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Evidence Of Potentially Drinkable Water Found On Mars
Scientists on Friday called NASA's Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about early water on Mars made almost 10 years after it was launched toward the Red Planet.The...
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Biology Shows Us How To Prevent Hackers From Stealing Data
From denial of service attacks to server crashes to day-long disruptions of Google Drive, almost all organizations are familiar with threats to their information security.Given that digital information...
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New 'Miracle Material' Is Flexible While Also As Hard As A Diamond
The race is on to harness the potential of graphene, a substance that is harder than diamond, yet incredibly flexible, and the world’s best conductor of electricity.Kostya Novoselov tends to wear an...
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China Will Send The Country's Second Woman Into Space Tomorrow
China is to send its second woman astronaut into orbit on its longest mission yet, space officials said Monday, as the country works towards building a space station.The Shenzhou-10 -- the name means...
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Witch Hunts Still Take Place Worldwide
The witch hunts and subsequent killings that took place in colonial New England are considered a dark chapter in U.S. history.But across Papua New Guinea and in other places around the world,...
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Light Pollution Is Killing Endangered Sea Turtles
Light pollution along the Mediterranean is changing the nesting habits of sea turtles in Israel, according to new research.Orbital pictures of the region, coupled with sea turtle nesting data from...
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KOHLRABI: The New Superfood That's About To Take Over
You’ve got kale, spinach, and collard greens down, no?Well, time to add another super-veggie into the healthy-eating mix.Enter: kohlrabi.“Kohlrabi is a vegetable that is part of the mustard family (aka...
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95% Of People Don't Wash Their Hands Correctly After Using The Bathroom
After using the bathroom, 95 percent of people fail to wash their hands long enough to kill harmful bacteria, a new study finds.Researchers also found that only two in three people use soap, while one...
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The Oldest Man In Recorded History Has Passed Away
The world's oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116, officials in Japan said on Wednesday.Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, died in hospital early...
View ArticleNew York City Summers Are Increasingly Deadly
Heat-related deaths in New York City's borough of Manhattan may rise about 20 percent over the next decade, according to a new study.Researchers at Columbia University in New York analyzed the...
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