Loud Booms in North Carolina Followed by Massive Fish Kill
Those mysterious booms that have been heard around the world with increasing frequency may have claimed some innocent victims. On March 16, 2015, loud booms were heard and felt by people living along...
View ArticleIt Was Climate, Not Beauty, That Killed the Beast
Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast. It’s one of the most famous closing lines of a movie, but is it true? Airplanes definitely contributed to the demise of King Kong and his...
View ArticleScientists Find Cause of Spots on Da Vinci’s Self Portrait
Time has taken its toll on Leonardo da Vinci’s irreplaceable self-portrait. Sketched in red chalk, “foxing spots,” nasty reddish-brown spots, have erupted on the paper’s surface and threaten its...
View Article“Chewbacca” Beetle Discovered in New Guinea
A long time ago in a galaxy far away – actually, not too long ago in a country that is pretty far away, an international group of entomologists recently discovered a new species of hairy beetle while...
View ArticleWearable Mushrooms are Here and They’re Fashionable Too
We’ve seen burial suits made from mushrooms that help a corpse decompose quickly and organically. Why should the dead be the only ones to wear mushrooms? A Dutch fashion designer agrees and is now...
View ArticleTreasure Trove of Fossils Found in Antarctica
Over a ton of 71 million-year old dinosaur fossils have been found in Antarctica. Most of them are from prehistoric marine reptiles and birds, even ducks that lived during the Cretaceous period....
View ArticleStarfish Make a Big Comeback After a Mysterious Die-Off
It’s nice to get some good news once in a while, especially when it’s a follow-up to a devastating story. It was just over two years ago that massive populations of starfish off the coats of Oregon and...
View ArticleEcosexuals Do It in the Botanical Sense
Have you ever wondered why some environmentalists are smiling while hugging trees? Have you ever wondered if the hugged trees might be showing their appreciation by oozing sap? Does the mental image of...
View ArticleLiving Algae Buildings are a Growing Concept
Algae, aquatic plants that capture carbon dioxide from the air and use photosynthesis to generate oxygen and energy, are a versatile plant. A natural solution to food, energy and climate issues, it can...
View ArticleExperience Life As A Doomed Cow To Save The Planet
For better or worse, virtual reality seems to be the next big panacea. Medical researchers are testing virtual reality as a treatment for pain or anxiety and even as a means of treating or curing...
View ArticleEcologists Puzzled By Unexplained Mass Animal Deaths
Sometimes the news is nothing other than depressing. There have been several high-profile and unexplained animal die-offs earlier this year including the fateful mass deaths of the scrotum frogs of...
View ArticleScientists Unravel Mystery Of The Deadly “London Fog”
While most talk of air pollution these days seems to focus on developing and industrializing nations such as China and India, one of the worst cases of industrial pollution in human history occurred in...
View ArticleMass Deaths of Sea Creatures In Canada Remain A Mystery
Celebrities weren’t the only living things dying off in great numbers in 2016. Scores of animal die-offs also occurred in 2016, many of which remain unexplained. From “rivers in the sky” wiping out...
View ArticleMysterious Bird Apocalypse on Houston Highway
A huge flock of black birds mysteriously descended on a Houston highway on January 19th, seemingly oblivious to the speeding cars as a video of the scene showed them hitting the windshield. This has...
View ArticleThe Amazon is an Ancient Ecological Engineering Project
The Amazon rainforests are generally thought of as one of the last great untouched ecosystems on our ever-urbanizing planet. However, recent discoveries have shown that the rainforest was likely once...
View ArticleYoga Pants May Be Polluting the Oceans
Yoga pants have been blamed for a lot of things: distracting other students in yoga class, ruining the market for fashionable outfits, destroying the moral fabric of society. Now a new study is...
View ArticleWeed Killer is Turning Australia’s Cane Toads into Monsters
The tale of the introduction of cane toads in Australia and the destruction that followed is well-known, but perhaps not well-known enough. Released in 1935 as a way to control cane beetles, the...
View ArticleBill Gates and Richard Branson Invest in Stem Cell Mystery Meat
In many areas of our daily lives, technological progress has advanced exponentially over the last few centuries, but in others it hasn’t. Growing food is still basically the same process that it always...
View ArticleReports of Mystery Substances Around the World Baffle Experts
Reports of discoveries of unidentified substances keep popping up in the news around the world lately. As if the proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants wasn’t terrifying enough, this...
View ArticleHordes of Octopuses Walk Out of the Ocean in Wales
Let’s get a couple of things out of the way right up front. The octopus is a solitary mollusk, so much so that there is no collective noun to describe a group of them. That means when a headline refers...
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