What if all the Earth’s ice melted?
The TL;DR answer is that it would be very very very bad for all of us humans likely leading to a global mass extinction event. And, if we continue unrestrainedRead more . . .
The science of truffle oil
Truffle oil may not be what you thought it was. This “magical” oil promises to bring consumers hard to keep truffles in a convenient and easy to use form. Unfortunately,Read more . . .
The 50 year sugar fraud
Industry funding of scientific research is ethical; bribing researchers to produce the outcome you want is not. In the 1960’s leading scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health conspired with sugarRead more . . .
Pity the poor nautilus
The chambered nautilus, a cephalopod mollusk that has lived on Earth for about 5oo million years and has survived five mass extinction events, is probably approaching its own extinction. Overfishing, mostlyRead more . . .
Wolves are born gamblers; dogs are not
Thousands of years ago some friendly wolves started hanging around human encampments to scavenge for easy scraps of food. Those canines eventually co-adapted with humans and become the domesticated dog; atRead more . . .
Robot sex is going to be a thing. Ewww?
Robot sex is likely not too far in the future and bound to come with a number of significant . . . social . . . challenges; not to mentionRead more . . .
Where did all the Earth’s carbon come from?
If you ask a geochemist, they might say that most of Earth’s carbon should have been burned off during the formation of the Earth or was chemically locked up in theRead more . . .
Is this the end of the African elephant?
Elephant population numbers are suffering the double whammy of poaching and slow recovery due to having one of the slowest reproductive cycles of all mammals. By one estimate illegal killingRead more . . .
It’s been a big week for Pterosaurs
New finding of a small pterosaur in British Columbia, Canada about the size of a house cat and with a wing span of only 1.5 m (5 feet) has questioned theRead more . . .
The fail of antibacterial soaps
The US Food and Drug Administration has ruled that over the counter consumer antibacterial soaps containing 19 named chemicals may no longer be marketed or sold to consumers. The issueRead more . . .
