Science

If you want proof that Mother Nature does exactly what she wants, when she wants, and how she wants – human rules be damned – look no further than the platypus. Literally nothing about them fits into any scientific mold, and actually, scientists who were sent the first sample thought they were being punked. True...

Listen, I know that we all assume Twinkies would be one of the of the foods to survive a nuclear holocaust, but if you find one in the corner of your basement, and you’re not exactly sure how long it’s been there (or even when you last bought Twinkies), you might not want to eat...

If there’s one thing most, if not all, scientists agree on these days, it’s that our planet needs more than a little bit of help if we’re going to convince it to continue hosting human life for a few thousand more years. How to offer that help, and in the most expeditious way possible, is...

Microplastics – which are, as you’ve probably surmised, tiny (sometimes microscopic) bits of plastic – are in literally everything. They’re in our food, they’re in the things we use to store our food, they’re in our environments, even in the air we breathe and the rain that tumbles from the sky. It stands to reason, then,...

If you’re approaching middle age (like I am) or are staring down the later years of your life and hoping to spend most of them lucid and enjoying the fruits of your labor, then keeping your mind in tact is likely something that interests you. Dementia is scary, and it affects so many of our...

Now, I’m not advising that any of us get up close and personal with any of these things. We’ve all seen the movies (so many movies!) and obviously, close encounters with burning hot rock from outer space never goes well for the inhabitants of planet Earth. That said, wouldn’t you like to sound (even) smarter...

I’ve always found it to be pretty funny when I see someone who is obviously in their twenties (or maybe even in their thirties) playing a teenager on TV. They always look way too old AND they’re usually very good-looking and in great shape. And we all realize that it looks a little ridiculous… But...

If you’re a man, you pretty much have two pathways regarding your hair as you get older: it either goes gray or you lose most or all of it. And if you’re in that lucky small percentage that just keeps a full head of beautiful black or brown or blond or red hair…well, I don’t...