Scientists Have an Answer to How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built
Using sand, water, and a scale model of an ancient Egyptian transport sled, a team of international scientists ...
Happy Birthday, Osamu Shimomura!
August 27th marked the birthday of Osamu Shimomura, the organic chemist who discovered green fluorescent protein in 1962. ...
Lunch Poems Turns 50
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of Frank O’Hara’s groundbreaking book Lunch Poems.
Mosquitoes: The Science Behind the Pests
Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others? How you smell to a mosquito affects how much you're bit.
Internet Addiction?
In the new documentary “Web Junkie” by filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia, viewers are introduced to Daxing ...
“Plastic Rock” Marks the Presence of Humans in the Fossil Record
Plastic in the ocean has created an entirely new kind of rock: plastiglomerate.