How Long Do We Remember Major Plane Crashes?
By Stephanie Pappas
American Airlines Flight 587. Germanwings Flight 9525. Air France Flight 447. How long will these flights, all of which crashed and killed...
Global Warming Science
97% of climate scientists agree that the radical changes in the Earth’s climate, over the past century, are caused by human industry. So what...
Can the Trump-Russia Scandal Really End in Treason Charges?
Of course, none of the Congressional and FBI investigations have concluded and we don’t really know what happened, other than the reports by the...
We Should All “Get Over” Pluto
Should Pluto still be a planet? The issue has been hotly debated for many years, but Neil deGrasse Tyson has recently drawn a line...
Spiders Eat up to 800 Million Tons of Prey per Year,...
by PAUL RATNER
Who are the world’s top predators? It’s not humans, killer whales or tigers. The creatures that kill and consume the most amount...
Ketamine: A Club Drug That May Be the Future of Antidepressants
by PAUL RATNER
A powerful anesthetic, used as an animal tranquilizer and an illicit club drug, has been receiving growing attention for its potential to...
The ‘Internet of Things’ Will Take Nudge Theory Too Far
by JOSEPH F. COUGHLIN
My mother turned sharply, red-faced, yelling at me to “stop being a noodge!” Shopping with my mother as a young boy...
Astronomy: The Gateway Drug of Science
Doing astronomy may be the closest activity we have to science-for-science’s-sake — gazing across endless distances to view objects that aren’t in the location...
Here’s Why Evolution Can Be “Survival of the Friendliest”
by JAG BHALLA
1. Life’s games are not all “red in tooth and claw” fights. And you need no brain to see that a “war...
Buddhist Monks in China Have Offset 40 Million Tons of Greenhouse...
by ROBBY BERMAN
A newly released study shows that by eating a vegetarian diet, Buddhists in China annually prevent roughly 40 million tons of greenhouse...














































