By Stephan Roget – Updated 2019 Dec 08 – History can change in an instant. A wrong turn, an off-the-cuff statement, or a single shot can forever alter the course of the world and the people in it. Sometimes, history can be …
But adding small amounts of land to already protected areas could help save the island’s biodiversity. The western tarsier, a rare primate species, has lost large amounts of its Borneo habitat to logging. More of that habitat is likely to disappear because of …
By Ben Coxworth – A stylized diagram of the system, which could detect brain activity in both deep and surface regions at the same time. Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute. – When it comes to accurately reading the brain’s electrical signals, many systems …
By Ben Coxworth – A microscope image showing how a sheet of the plastic biodegrades in seawater – the material was developed in partnership with Japanese company Nihon Shokuhin Kako. Osaka University. – Whether it’s entangling marine animals, clogging their guts when they eat …
By Nick Lavars – NASA has developed a new 3D map to help track methane in the atmosphere. NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio. – Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas that can come from all kinds of places, including industrial facilities, agriculture, the production of …
By Setareh Janda – Updated 2018 Oct 13 – Who was Hedy Lamarr? In the heyday of Old Hollywood, she was one of the most beautiful women in the world. Hedy Lamarr movies were as popular as they were successful. Her breathtaking …
OK is an editorial joke run wild. (Photo: ClassicStock/Corbis) – By Rachel Nuwer – SmithsonianMag.Com – “OK” is one of the most common words in the English language, but linguistically it’s a relative newbie. It’s just 150 years old, and traces its roots …
By Joanna Gillan – 2019 Jun 17 – We British are used to women commanders in war; I am descended from mighty men! But I am not fighting for my kingdom and wealth now. I am fighting as an ordinary person for my …
By April Holloway – 2014 Sep 13 – (Also Read Part 1 ) Queen Boudicca had every reason to hate the Romans – by 60 AD, the lands of the Iceni clan of Britain had been captured, her people had been killed or …
By John Black – 2018 Dec 31 – This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called …
