Science
Hermit crabs and cockroaches are acting as gardeners for a parasitic plant
Hermit crab. Image via Wiki Commons. In the humid, coastal forests of Japan’s Ishigaki Island, near Okinawa, a parasitic plant…
China’s First Bamboo Offshore Solar Platform Could Change How We Build for Energy at Sea
For centuries, people along China’s rivers and coasts lashed bamboo together and trusted one of nature’s lightest building materials to…
Wi-Fi Routers Can Identify People with Stunning Precision (Even When Their Phones Are Off)
Researchers in Germany have warned that ordinary Wi-Fi could become a surprisingly powerful surveillance tool. A team at Karlsruhe Institute…
Bolivian river dolphins sometimes dangle anacondas in their mouths and scientists don’t know why
Not all dolphins live in the oceans. Some can be found swimming in major rivers, especially in South America and…
Six Narwhals Revealed Atlantic Heat Hiding Deep Inside Greenland’s Fjords
Narwhals are among the strangest animals in the oceans. They’re like unicorns of the sea, with the males growing a…
One Male Bird Is Almost Single-Handedly Keeping His Species Alive in Britain
Take six chicks, two different nests, and two females, and add one very active (and very promiscuous) male; and, apparently,…
The Colorado River Is Drying Up and the West Is Running Out of Easy Choices
Flow in the Colorado River has shrunk by about 20% since 2000, compared to 20th century amounts. Credit: Sergiy Galyonkin/Flickr,…
2,000 Pairs of Underwear Were Turned Into a Giant Soil Experiment and the Results Were Surprisingly Revealing
Slightly or heavily decomposed? The more active the soil organisms, the faster the cotton material decomposes. Credit: Priska Koller, Agroscope.…
A Forested Island the Size of Two Football Fields Appeared Out of Nowhere in Canada. Then It Mysteriously Vanished
Still from footage of the reported new island at Williston. Credit: Facebook. For a while, the simplest explanation was that…
