Category Science

Giraffes are tall, but they aren’t above a taxonomic reclassification. According to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), giraffes actually represent four separate species,…

Deep beneath the surface of the ocean lies an extreme marine ecosystem home to submarine volcanoes, an opening in the seafloor erupting with magma to form new crust. Void of…

As the research team from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed decades of deep-space communication logs, they found patterns in how we have beamed signals into the cosmos.…

Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization — literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states…

When modern humans travelled from Asia to the Americas, traversing the Bering Strait for the first time, they were well prepared. That’s because these travelers brought along an adaptive variant…

One of the most stressful parts of planning a first date is trying to pick the perfect place. Do you stay traditional and take them to dinner and a movie?…

The relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens is a point of fascination for both scientists and those interested in human history. Studies have shown that Neanderthals and H. sapiens mixed…

Black mambas have always been stuck with a notorious reputation in Africa, but they can lend a hand (or rather, a scale) to help track pollution. That’s because these snakes…

When wild pigs turn blue, it’s best to avoid them. That’s what the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has advised, anyway, now that the wild pigs in Monterey…

Flying can be stressful enough without 1,000-foot drops and severe shaking. But that’s what the passengers on a recent Delta flight out of Salt Lake City had to endure as…