The alternative is finding out how to live on a planet suffering from chronic lung disease.

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It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

Our country has a long and tortured history with food pyramids. The original dietary schematic, unveiled in 1992, had a firm foundation of carbohydrates—the bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group. It ...

Vultures might not be the most charismatic birds, but they do perform an important job. As carrion-feeding scavengers, they dispose of decaying animal matter, even bones, right down their throats. As ...

Have you ever taken months off training – maybe due to an injury, a new baby or crushing work deadlines – and come back convinced you were starting from zero? Research from our team has some good news ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Whether it’s gushing from a bumped nose or pooling atop a pricked finger, our blood is some hue of red. But red-bloodedness isn’t universal in ...

On October 18, 1963, French feline Félicette became the first “catstronaut” to head to space, landing safely by parachute after a trip of under 20 minutes. In that time, Félicette climbed to an ...

When a new dinosaur species is announced, we all probably share a similar image of how it was discovered: a team of sweaty paleontologists, meticulously removing layers of dirt to uncover a skeleton.

Bonobos have a well-earned reputation as the hippies of the great apes. Not only do they practice free love, using sex to bond socially, the more matriarchal species are also generally more ...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope recently spotted something curious. Observing a white dwarf (J1328−1450) located roughly 1,600 light-years from ...

In recent years, the term “narcissist” has been swung around like a sword in the dark. In everyday use, it came to describe anyone guilty of routine selfishness. The word is lay shorthand for a ...