Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow? Two Ways to Fight Climate Change
Scientists examine how tree growth would affect climate Two recently published papers in Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shed [...]
Horses Help in the Development of Emotionally Well-Adjusted Teenagers, Study Finds
Interacting with horses can ease teens' social anxiety High-school students in Hungary who participated in a four-year agricultural curriculum that included hands-on interaction [...]
Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists
Possible buried lakes detected on Mars Observations by the Mars Express space probe suggest the presence of three subsurface lakes on the red [...]
Crows Possess Higher Intelligence Long Thought a Primarily Human Attribute
Crows are even smarter than we once thought Some birds, especially corvids such as crows, are even more highly intelligent than previously believed, [...]
Australian Stinging Trees Inject Scorpion-Like Venom. The Pain Lasts for Days
The most toxic of the stinging trees, gympie-gympie or Dendrocnide moroides. Edward These trees have a toxic sting The leaves of Australia's gympie-gympie trees can [...]
Playing Video Games in Childhood Improves Working Memory Years Later
Playing video games may have cognitive benefits Children who play video games may see cognitive benefits when they're older, a study in Frontiers [...]
Across 10 Million Stars, Not a Single Whisper of Alien Technology
No alien tech detected in sweep of Vela constellation A detailed search of the Vela constellation by the Murchison Widefield Array has come [...]
A Strange Form of Life Could Flourish Deep Inside of Stars, Scientists Say
Do stars hold bizarre life-forms? (Pixabay) Unusual life-forms created by monopoles and cosmic strings may exist deep within stars, theoretical physicists say. "It [...]
Sweet-Tooth Tendencies Change as Kids Get Older
Study: Youths prefer more intense sweetness A study in the journal Nutrients found that children and teens needed 40% more sugar in a [...]
Flamboyant Cuttlefish Save their Bright Patterns for Flirting, Fighting and Fleeing
Flamboyant cuttlefish aren't always so colorful Flamboyant cuttlefish don't always look the way their name suggests, but instead blend in with their muddy [...]