DNA may not be life’s instruction book—just a jumbled list of...
The common view of heredity is that all information passed down from one generation to the next is stored in an organism's DNA. But...
Top 20 Foods High in Soluble Fiber
Dietary fiber is the carbohydrate in plants that your body cannot digest. Though it's essential to your gut and overall health, most people don't reach...
Bats can use ‘vocal learning’ to change their tune
Humans learn to speak by mimicking speech sounds. Are there other mammals who can learn sounds by imitation? In an experimental study, researchers from...
Sushi Parasite Has Increased 283x in Nearly 40 Years
The population of a marine parasite that sometimes worms its way into sushi has increased by 283 times in the last nearly 40 years,...
Scientists Predict the Amazon Rainforest May Disappear Within the Next 50 Years
The Amazon rainforest is Earth’s largest rainforest. 2.72 million square miles in size, the Amazon basin is roughly the size of forty-eight contiguous United...
Coke and Pepsi Among Ten Companies Sued For Plastic Pollution ‘Nuisance’
The environmental non-profit Earth Island Institute has filed a lawsuit against the companies who are responsible for a very large portion of the world’s...
You’re Not So Different From an Octopus: Rethinking Our Relationship to...
By Leslie Crawford Remember back when we were all tubes? Sy Montgomery does. That was a simpler time, eons before the octopus and Homo sapiens went...
Is vegan design the Next Big Trend?
It's a nice idea, but it needs a bit more rigor. We do go on about building a healthy house, about a low-carbon house, about...
People Are Keeping Parasitic Leeches as Pets, And Letting Them Drink...
To the disgust of many of our readers, we recently discovered that keeping leeches as pets is actually a thing. And yeah, it's certainly… a...
Save Nature, Save Lives
One of the first things you realize about Borneo is how difficult it can be to land a plane. On my first trip there,...
