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Our friend Dr. Joe Hanson from It’s Okay to Be Smart (PBS Digital Studios) goes full science nerd on neoteny, Disney princesses, and evolution. I noticed something weird about Disney Princesses lately ...

Scientists examine how soil microbial communities resume ecosystem functioning after a wildfire, with a focus on the effects of dispersal. In the aftermath of a wildfire, soil microbial communities ...

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Neurons send visual information to the brain, but just how it gets processed is a complexity that researchers are getting closer to understanding.. By Elisabeth Moore. Does seeing something new have a ...

What is the environmental paw print of pet food? Larger than you may think! It takes an area twice the size of the UK to produce dry food for cats and dogs. Much has been debated about the ...

We use and dispose of plastics every day. From toothbrushes and water bottles to food wrappers and Band-Aids, plastics are all around us. Although there have been many efforts made to limit the ...

Littering has wreaked havoc on ecosystems all over the world. What do we do now to amend the global problem of chronic waste? By Emily Folk. A single plastic bottle can take up to 450 years to degrade ...

In the dark of night, flying bugs can be seen dancing around lights. They erratically swarm and occasionally nosedive to their demise, seemingly driven by a love for the warm glow. It might appear ...

In October 2017, Oumuamua—or 1I/2017 U1—became the first interstellar asteroid detected by humans. It also changed how comets and asteroids are named. Comets’ technical names begin with the letter C, ...

Not only did they identify correlations between blubber thickness and water temperatures, but they also found variation in blubber thickness at different regions on the porpoises’ bodies, suggesting ...