Our planet is burning in unexpected ways - here’s how we can protect people and nature
Sep 18, 2023 06:29 am UTC| Science Nature
People have been using fire for millennia. It is a vital part of many ecosystems and cultures. Yet human activities in the current era, sometimes called the Anthropocene, are reshaping patterns of fire across the...
Jamais vu: the science behind eerie opposite of déjà vu
Sep 18, 2023 06:25 am UTC| Science
Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind. Take the experience of déjà vu, when we wrongly believe have experienced a novel situation in the past leaving you with an spooky sense of pastness. But...
Sustainable use of natural resources: lessons from Pantanal communities
Sep 18, 2023 05:54 am UTC| Science
How can we use nature in a sustainable way? That is a question I, together with colleagues from different parts of the world, have sought to answer for a decade. We are dedicated to studying issues related to the...
NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial
Sep 18, 2023 05:52 am UTC| Science
NASAs independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on Sept. 14, 2023. In part to move beyond the stigma often attached to UFOs, where military pilots fear ridicule or job sanctions if they...
Sep 18, 2023 05:50 am UTC| Science
Earlier this month, scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health announced they had successfully grown humanised kidneys inside pig embryos. The scientists genetically altered the embryos to remove...
Sep 01, 2023 01:38 am UTC| Science
Theres a lot of trash on the Moon right now including nearly 100 bags of human waste and with countries around the globe traveling to the Moon, theres going to be a lot more, both on the lunar surface and in Earths...
Crowd-sourced science sheds light on how new species form across space and time
Aug 25, 2023 07:58 am UTC| Science
Imagine a jungle. Its probably a lush forest, filled with different bird songs and the hum of thousands of different kinds of insects. Now imagine a tundra: barren, windswept terrain with relatively few kinds of plants or...