“In general, insect metabolism is temperature dependent.” By Dana Dovey – Climate change is already threatening our food supply by raising temperatures and causing wildfires, but as a new study in Science suggests, all this heat is speeding up insect metabolism, making them …
Analysis of data from the Juno probe shows the giant planet’s field is much different from our own and suggests it has a dissolved core. By Jason Daley – Smithsonian.com “Jupiter Magnetic Field”
Nick Lavars – Medical experts are increasingly concerned about the threat of drug-resistant bacteria (Credit: knorre/Depositphotos). Common bacteria living on our skin has raised a red flag for scientists concerned with the rise of superbugs, as new research reveals the spread of …
“I don’t know how to appreciate art. But I sure do know how to make a clinical diagnosis.” By Yasmin Tayag – The “Mona Lisa” has her own room in the Louvre, where she attracts six million visitors each year. Her room is …
Nick Lavars – Lex is essentially a seat that you wear around with you. Imagine if anytime, anywhere you felt a little fatigued in the legs you could simply lean back and take a load off? The developers of Lex are working towards …
Semi artificial photosynthesis takes a cue from plants. By James Dennin – One of the more long shot efforts to not only develop more renewable energy, but also to help mitigate climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a process …
By Mike Brown – SpaceX wants to give rise to a human settlement on Mars. Starting small with a couple of spaceships and expanding out into a sprawling metropolis, a colony on the red planet is partially the vision of Paul Wooster, principal …
by Evan Fleischer – Young girl in Chicago classroom, Stanley Kubrick for LOOK Magazine, c/o Creative Commons. Daydreaming is important — studies have repeatedly said as much — but maybe you shouldn’t daydream too much, as a recent study by researchers at Ruhr-Universität …
By Terence Chea – DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — University of California researchers are feeding seaweed to dairy cows in an attempt to make cattle more climate-friendly. UC Davis is studying whether adding small amounts of seaweed to cattle feed can help reduce their …
Anthony Wood – Image of Earth captured by NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite (Credit: NASA). An international team of scientists has proposed a series of deadlines by which humanity must take serious action to combat climate change if it is …
