Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of the most hostile environments in the solar system, blasted by radiation strong enough to kill a human in hours. Yet beneath its frozen surface may lie a saltwater ocean ...

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

Local advocates in Columbus and Franklin County conduct a federally mandated count of the homeless population each January. The annual Point-in-Time count helps determine how federal and local ...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...

As explosions were heard in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, in the early morning of January 3rd, something else was being shattered: the certainty that South America is, and will remain, a continent ...

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After years of a minimalist life, my wife and I decided to try living without furniture. We noticed physical benefits, and we also love that our house often looks clean and uncluttered. This lifestyle ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

Christmas lights are shining all over the world. Whether in the Southern Hemisphere's summer, the northern winter or the eternal spring of equatorial places, we set up luminarias, burn candles and put ...

This year’s crackdown on immigration may mean a new normal for the U.S. labor market. Before the pandemic, sustainable job growth in the U.S. meant adding around 100,000 new jobs per month, a number ...