2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (509+ words) When they declared smoking a class 1 carcinogen, tobacco companies trembled and predatort lawyers cackled like Scrooge McDuck on a pile of gold coins. Both knew the lawsuit would be devastating. Their greed and manipulation of media are why Andrew Wakefield's…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (319+ words) We take thousands of steps each day and we never think about the evolutionary and cultural advantage it represents. Humans naturally land with a heel-strike and the metabolic energy savings were as much as 41 percent, which made traveling farther possible,…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (264+ words) Electric cars are currently limited in utility, which means continued government subsidies and high cost, because battery technology has not changed in the last 35 years. When everything else in a technology cycle is funded by tax capture, there is no…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (879+ words) Science has explained an extraordinary amount about the world around us. But one of its most elusive subjects remains remarkably close to home: ourselves. What made humans the way we are? How did we acquire our extraordinary capacities for consciousness,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (227+ words) A new paper believes that in an already seismically active Arctic region, permafrost degradation can weaken the ice that helps to bind fractures within rock. The frozen water within these fractures, which helped to stabilize the volcanic slopes for thousands…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (341+ words) There is only one way to stay at a healthy weight; burn more calories than you ingest. High-fructose corn syrup does not matter, organic food does not matter, gluten-free doesn't matter. Even quinoa doesn't matter. In biology, only calories matter....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (184+ words) Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape. A new paper suggests that storytelling may have have been why human communication evolved from the ape-like systems our primate cousins still use to complex human language. The reasoning is that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (795+ words) The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports followed, and the worst of it hit the city’s west…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (220+ words) Neuroscience treats consciousness as something produced by the brain but a recent paper suggests that conscious experience is shaped through a continuous, rhythmic dialogue between the brain and body; the regular, predictable signals around which groups of neurons can organize…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (284+ words) He didn't call it a Moonshot or a Manhattan Project of Space, that is the kind of language his political opponents use(1), President Trump announcing a U.S. Space Academy invoked something even bolder - Star Trek. Unlike the Star Wars universe, you…...