Amazon Says It Will Stop Using Plastic Pillows in Shipments
They’ll be replaced in North America with paper packing, eliminating some 15 billion pillows a year. Plastic film is a…
Monkeys in Puerto Rico Got Nicer After Hurricane Maria
Macaques, reeling from a hurricane, learned by necessity to get along, a study found. It’s one of the first to…
Butterflies Are in Decline. New Research Points to Insecticides.
Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of…
George Woodwell, Scientist Who Helped Shape Environmental Policy, Dies at 95
The founder of the renowned Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, he was not afraid to leverage credible scientific findings…
Leaping Leeches! Watch These Bloodsuckers Jump.
There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at…
Lokiceratops, a Horned Dinosaur, May Be a New Species
Researchers analyzed a skull found in Montana of a plant-eating member of the ceratops family, finding distinct traits.In the Late…
How to Make 3,000-Year-Old Beer
An amateur brewer in Utah gathered rare figs and a strain of yeast from 850 B.C. to make a sour,…
Ancient Shipwreck Preserves a Deep Bronze Age Time Capsule
About a mile beneath the sea, the ship suggests that trade in the eastern Mediterranean Sea traveled much farther from…
Beluga Whales Are Rescued From Ukrainian War Zone to New Home in Spain
A pair of beluga whales were extricated from the besieged city of Kharkiv and taken to an aquarium in Spain…
How Our Brain Produces Language and Thought, According to Neuroscientists
A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning.For thousands of years, philosophers have…