Scientists say a rare shark “virgin birth” may be the first of its kind after a baby shark was born in an all-female tank in an...
Are people in your culture are mindful of others, even if they’re total strangers? Social mindfulness differs from individual mindfulness in that money isn’t involved –...
Most life needs oxygen to thrive, and science shows that O2 began to show up in Earth’s atmosphere in serious amounts some 2.4 billion years ago....
More Americans are coming to accept Charles Darwin’s “dangerous idea” of evolution, according to thirty years’ worth of national surveys. Researchers have found that public acceptance...
Your nose might be guiding you to make more balanced food decisions, according to a small new study. When 30 participants ate either cinnamon buns or...
Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world’s northernmost landmass – a yet-to-be-named island north of Greenland that could soon be swallowed up by...
Figuring out what’s going on underneath a kilometer (over half a mile) of solid Greenland ice isn’t easy for scientists, but the rise and fall of...
Tropical forests in Africa don’t receive nearly as much attention as the Amazon rainforest or the jungles of southeast Asia, but that says nothing of their...
Roughly a century ago, scientists began to realize that some of the radiation we detect in Earth’s atmosphere is not local in origin. This eventually gave...
Travel back in time 56 million years, and you’d arrive during a period of heightened volcanic activity on Earth. The activity triggered significant shifts in the...