Shutterstock. By Brittany Brolley – Green eyes may just be more enigmatic than any other eye color. And you don’t have to dig too deep to realize that we are all pretty obsessed with this color. Green eyes have become a mainstay in …
Protect yourself and your personal information at all times on the internet. By Andrew LaSane – Christin Hume on Unsplash. The internet is filled with scammers looking to steal your private information. The Better Business Bureau has shared important information on the scams …
On average, American households dump the equivalent of $1,900 worth of food a year. By Kevin Dickinson – (Photo: Unsplash) A recent study finds that the average American household wastes a third of its food. All told, the U.S. food system squanders billions …
By Joanna McKittrick and Jae-Young Jung – Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would cause headaches, jaw aches and serious neck and brain injuries. Yet woodpeckers can do this 20 times per second and …
These puzzling holes in the arid valleys of southern Perú tell us there was once a flourishing, sophisticated society here. BBC Future | By William Park – In one of the most arid regions in the world a series of carefully constructed, spiraling …
By Nick Lavars – The idea of seals clapping may not seem all that surprising, but it has never been observed underwater in the wild before. Paradoxdes/Depositphotos. – Different creatures seek to attract mates in different ways, whether that be a peacock spreading …
We all know somebody who avoids meat. These schools of thought suggest those people are onto something. By Scotty Hendricks – Cute piglets, or bacon seeds depending on your point of view. Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images. …
Most people see weeds as a problem. But one farmer has found they can help make dry, damaged land lush again – not to mention absorb carbon from the atmosphere. By Georgina Kenyon – More than 60 years ago, when he was a …
By Michael Irving – A honeybee with a parasitic Varroa mite attached to its back. Alex Wild / University of Texas at Austin. – The world is losing huge numbers of honeybees to colony collapse disorder (CCD), which has devastating implications for global ecosystems …
How a killer flu spread from western Kansas to the world. By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, February 19, 2018 – Ground Zero in one of the world’s deadliest influenza pandemics started quietly, inconspicuously. It was winter, 100 years ago. And it was …
