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Earth & Conservation

What Does the Easter Bunny Have To Do With Easter?

Easter Sunday is a religious holiday to some and a family holiday for others, but how did the bunny get involved?

Earth & Conservation

Antarctic Researchers Hope to Find Shackleton’s Endurance

The Larsen C ice shelf is the primary focus of an upcoming expedition to Antarctica. But researchers will remain on the look out for wreckage of the historic ship.

Earth & Conservation

75 Years After First LSD Trip, Psychedelic Science Is Making a Comeback

Sidelined for decades by the War on Drugs, LSD and other psychedelics are regaining their original reputation as effective therapies for depression and addiction.

Most of Us Have Herpes Thanks to Ancient Interspecies Sex (Probably)

Humans didn’t always have genital herpes, so scientists recently pinpointed when and how the transfer happened. Hint: it either involved murder or sex.

Why Don’t Humans Have a Penis Bone?

Many species, including some of our closest primate relatives, have penis bones. Why don’t we?

By Brian Kahn, Climate Central

The Doomsday Clock Is Now Two-and-a-Half Minutes to Disaster

Due to climate change, the prospect of nuclear war, and a political disregard for facts, the doomsday clock is now closer to midnight than any time since the 1950s.

Earth & Conservation

You Think You Know What Meat Is... But You Have No Idea (Part 1 of 3)

Eating meat has been part of the human identity for 2.5 million years, but according to science, what exactly is meat?

A Previously Unknown Group of Ancient Native Americans Was Just Revealed

The newly sequenced genome of an Alaskan infant who lived just after the last Ice Age provides clues about the ancestry and migrations of early Native Americans.

Space & Innovation

How Scientists See Through Walls Using Particles From Space

A void was just discovered in Khufu’s Pyramid using muon tomography. What are these cosmic particles and how do scientists use them to see through walls?

The Plague Likely Arrived in Europe During the Stone Age

Nomads migrating into Europe during the Stone Age may have brought the plague, setting the stage for epidemics like the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people.

European Hunter-Gatherers Interbred With Farmers From the Near East

The first farmers were not only well traveled, but also apparently well loved by the hunter-gatherers that they encountered across Europe.

Humans Started Domesticating Crops Thousands of Years Earlier Than We Thought

Genetic analysis of grains found at archeological sites shows that einkorn was domesticated as many as 30,000 years ago and barley as many as 21,000 years ago.