Fast, Cheap, and Totally Popular: Tintypes
Tintypes were an early, accessible, cheap form of photography, just the thing for on-the-go Americans.
One Way to a Cleaner Ocean? Plastics!
A new technology allows ships to dredge the ocean for plastic, then compress it into bricks. But plastic recycling has proved difficult in the past.
What Doctors Can Learn From the Arts
What can doctors learn from the arts? Ask Anton Chekhov.
The Bigger Your House, The More Room for Bugs
Insect diversity inside the house strongly correlates with neighborhood income. The higher up the income ladder you climb, the greater the diversity of bugs.
What’s On the Other Side of a Black Hole?
What would happen if you entered a black hole?
How Ants Make Gardens in the Sky
You probably haven’t heard of ant gardens, but JSTOR has. High above neotropical rain forests, ants create elaborate nests, sharing them with epiphytes.
Slow, Steady, and Very, Very, Very Old
Why do Greenland Sharks and Pacific Rockfish live for hundreds and hundreds of years?
6 Digital Work Habits Every Student (and Adult) Needs
These digital study habits are relatively simple and sustainable, and work for students and parents alike.
What Birds, Coyotes, and Badgers Know About Teamwork
Mutualism is a relationship between organisms where both benefit.