New ReviewLots of geological forces need to come together for continents to form, but they all require one ingredient: water.

New ReviewYou may have heard of "abortion pills" - here's what these medications are and what they do (and don't do).

New ReviewVolcanoes might seem like an unstoppable force of nature - but there is at least one OTHER force on Earth that seems to be able to keep them down.

New ReviewThere are two types of rain, and one of them is almost impossible to forecast.

New ReviewWe often use decibels, a measure of sound pressure, to describe how loud something is - but loudness is caused by how we perceive sounds, and the two often don't line up.

New ReviewMost animals on earth are bioluminescent, but almost all of them live in the ocean - and scientists aren’t sure why.

New ReviewSome plants can drink water from the air - and that has some weird effects on the forests where they live.

New ReviewHow do you count things you don't know about?

New ReviewTwo mushroom guilds with vastly different strategies are locked in competition for forest dominance.

New ReviewThe concept of warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals is outdated because there are actually tons of different animal thermoregulation strategies.

New ReviewFor thousands of years, water was thought to be an element. That is, until some of the greatest chemists in the world managed to crack it open.

New ReviewEnergy use can be confusing – I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house? That's why we made these things spud-tacularly simple.

New ReviewThe human population of the world will soon peak – and then decrease – thanks to a combination of two quickly changing economic and educational trends.

New ReviewTrees are a super-efficient way to sequester carbon, but since planting the wrong trees in the wrong place can do more harm than good, we need to go about tree planting more carefully.

New ReviewNuclear war is a terrifying existential threat, but we shouldn't only fear the blasts because the ensuing smoke is the real killer.

New ReviewMethuselah’s environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, it’s the perfect place to grow very very old.

New ReviewBy combining historical demography and epidemiology, we can (sort of) determine how people throughout history have died.

New ReviewThe shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it.

New ReviewWhen the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge

New ReviewA simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.

New ReviewWhen it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.

New ReviewWe actually have no idea what a “disease” is.

New ReviewPlants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?

New ReviewIt’s common to call creepy crawlies bugs, but because entomologists refer to a specific class of insects as bugs, it’s wrong to call other things bugs - right?