Is it okay to boil water more than once, or should you empty the kettle every time?
The kettle is a household staple practically everywhere – how else would we make our…
Africans survived 10,000 years of climate changes by adapting food systems – study offers lessons for modern times
Imagine living in a place where a single drought, hurricane, or mudslide can wipe out…
US support for school cellphone bans up since last year
(Dobrila Vignjevic/via Getty Images) As the new school year approaches and lawmakers across the country…
The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it’s harming native fungi
Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular…
Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how
Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies…
Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a…
The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked
The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is…
Under the influence: how digital media affects teens
In today’s world, the line between online and offline is increasingly being blurred, especially for…
Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form
If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere with binoculars and a good…
How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States
The contemporary internet has been with us since roughly 1995. Its current underlying economic model…