Meat Alt-Meat Trounces Animal Meat's Massive InefficienciesWIRED - Liz Specht One of the strongest selling points of plant-based and clean meat is the efficiency of production: The conversion of inputs to outputs is vastly more …
Science Mysterious sea creature spotted on beach draws 'Alien' comparison: 'Fascinating!'Fox News - Madeline FarberA woman taking an evening stroll on a beach in the United Kingdom came across a mysterious pale-blue creature she would later learn was a so-called “buoy barnacle,” an unusual and reportedly rarely-seen
Science A Fungus Could Wipe Out the Banana ForeverWIRED - Matt Reynolds, WIRED UK The banana—or at least the fruit as we know it—is facing an existential crisis. A deadly fungus that has decimated banana plantations in southeast …
Bed bugs How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs for Good, According to Experts Who Study ThemPrevention - Brielle Gregory Thinking you may have a pest problem is never fun, but most homeowners dread one infestation in particular: bed bugs. It’s understandable why: Bed …
Science Omega-3 pills slash triglycerides, but study warns against supplementsslashgear.com - Brittany A. Roston Part of maintaining a healthy heart and reducing one’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease is keeping cholesterol and triglyceride levels in …
Acetaminophen What's the Difference Between Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen?howstuffworks.com - Alia Hoyt The average headache or backache often sends people reaching willy-nilly for the nearest bottle of pain reliever, but for best results it's smart to …
Science Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Changescientificamerican.com - Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer, Dale Jamieson Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST), suggesting that the …
Ecstasy (Drug) MDMA-Assisted Therapy Shows Promise as Treatment for Alcohol AddictionGizmodo - Ed Cara Supplementing psychotherapy with small doses of MDMA could be an effective strategy to prevent relapses of alcohol addiction in patients, an ongoing …
University of Edinburgh See the Face of Hilda, a Toothless Iron Age Druid Womansmithsonianmag.com - Meilan Solly During the Iron Age, women’s average life expectancy was around 30 years old. But Hilda, a druid woman who lived on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis at some …
Science Everyone Is Going Crazy Over the Best Air Conditioner Temperature. How Cool Do You Keep Your House?Popular Mechanics - By Andrew DanielsWe’re arguing about air conditioners today, because what else do you yell about with strangers when you’re all stuck in the oppressively sweaty doldrums of August? Here’s the tweet that’s riling everyone
Environment Bees Are Dropping Dead Across Brazil, And The Reason Is Absolutely DevastatingScienceAlert - BRUCE DOUGLAS & TATIANA FREITAS Death came swiftly for Aldo Machado's honey bees. Less than 48 hours after the first Apis mellifera showed signs of sickness, tens of thousands lay …
Hydrogen Scientists extract hydrogen gas from oil and bitumen, giving potential pollution-free energyphys.org Scientists have developed a large-scale economical method to extract hydrogen (H2) from oil sands (natural bitumen) and oil fields. This can be used …
Soil We're barreling towards another Dust BowlPopular Science - Erin BlakemoreWe have to fight fast to keep our soil from slipping away. In 1935, the Dust Bowl came to Washington—and if we don't change our ways, it could come back. A new report from the UN climate committee warns
Science Century-old salmon-smeared notebooks reveal past bounty of fisheriessciencemag.org - Lesley Evans Ogden One day in June 1919, workers in a busy Canadian cannery in Port Essington rushed to clean, cook, and can the bright red flesh of a huge number of …
Science Melting Glaciers Are Helping Capture CarbonWIRED - Matt Simon Full-tilt chaos has descended on the Arctic, a region that’s now warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. This summer it’s been sweltering …
UFOs 'UFOs' Are Flying Out of Supermassive Black Holes and Reshaping Galaxies | Live ScienceLive Science Hot ionized gas is streaming out of the accretion disk of a supermassive black hole and slamming into its surroundings at a significant fraction of …
The Future The weird, repeating signals from deep space just tripledCNET - by Eric Mack Fast radio bursts are getting more attention from scientists, who can now detect more of them.
The Brain End of audiobook snobbery as scientists find hearing and listening activates the same parts of the brainThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonBook snobs who insist that reading literature is superior to listening to an audiobook may want to look away now. Neuroscientists have discovered that the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain
Science Earth's inner core is doing something weirdNational Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasData from old Soviet weapons tests are helping scientists get a high-resolution look inside our planet. On September 27, 1971, a nuclear bomb exploded on Russia’s Novaya Zemlya islands. The powerful blast
Cancer Cells The power of electromagnetic energy on breast cancer cellsMedical News Today - By Lauren Sharkey Cancer's ability to spread throughout the body can turn a curable case into an aggressive and sometimes fatal one. A team of engineers and cancer …
Science Plastic bottles can be turned into lighter, cheaper prosthetic limbsThe Telegraph - By Henry BodkinPlastic bottles can be turned into prosthetic limbs which are 40 per cent lighter and thousands of pounds cheaper than existing models, scientists have discovered. Two patients are now walking with artificial
Science Steel mill sorry for spill that killed fish, closed beachesAssociated PressPORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A steel company apologized for a spill of cyanide and ammonia that led to a fish kill and prompted the closure of beaches along Lake Michigan. ArcelorMittal issued a statement Friday
Dugongs Famous dugong dies after eating plasticBBC NewsAn orphaned dugong, made famous after it was rescued earlier this year in Thailand, has died. The animal named Mariam died on Saturday from an infection that was exacerbated by bits of plastic lining stomach,
Chromosomes Scientists Reveal Which Genes Come From Your Mom and Which You Get From Your Dadboredpanda.com - Jenny Lynn If you’ve heard someone tell you something like, “You are a copy of your mother,” you should know that this is a false statement. In fact, we …
Science A Woman Lived with a 'Twin' Inside Her for 17 Years Without KnowingGizmodo - Ed Cara A young woman in India unknowingly lived with one of the rarest and most unsettling medical conditions for nearly two decades, her doctors say. …
Play buttonScience Incredibly Gross New Species of Fish Found in AntarcticaPopular Mechanics - By Courtney LinderThat's according to scientist Andrew Stewart, who discovered the curious new species of fish shown in the photo above during the filming of "Expedition Antarctica," a documentary following researchers
Science Looks Like We Have a New State of MatterPopular Mechanics - By David GrossmanA team of physicists from New York University, University of Buffalo, and Wayne State University have discovered a new state of matter, which they say has the potential to increase storage capabilities
Cognition This is how to rewire your brain for happiness: 4 secrets from researchLadders - Eric Barker Someone compliments you and you think, “They don’t mean it.”Something good happens and you hear, “I don’t deserve this.”You’re meeting new people and …
Business The Completely Reasonable Reason People Are Flying With Mini HorsesThe New York Times Mona Ramouni plays with her guide horse, Cali, in her home in Michigan. Cali flew with Ms. Ramouni before the Department of Transportation made the announcement.
Social Work What Makes People Attracted to Each Other?The Atlantic - Ben HealyHot or not? The question of whom we’re attracted to and why has long confounded humankind’s greatest philosophers, scientists, and reality-show contestants. Scads of studies suggest that those of us looking
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