December 3, 2021

So far, 100,000 monarch butterflies migrated in 2021. Can this stop their extinction?

Tens of thousands of monarch butterflies are flocking to the California coast for the winter, filling tree branches with fluttering

Scientists have finally discovered why the brain consumes so much energy, even at rest

The human brain gobbles up to 10 times more energy than the rest of the body, eating through 20 percent

These record-breaking simulations of the Universe aim to solve a ‘tiny’ problem

What’s the mass of a neutrino? This problem has vexed physicists for decades. It’s tiny, no doubt, but by virtue

After months of daylight, Antarctica is about to be plunged into 2 minutes of night

The Sun hasn’t set in Antarctica since October. Earth’s southernmost continent is currently experiencing a long summer’s day, one that

Great news, scientists finally figured out why cannabis smells ‘skunky’

With the dawn of legal cannabis in some US states, the number of Americans smoking, ingesting or applying the psychotropic

One American culture actually benefited from ‘the worst year in human history’

As far as years go, you could do a lot better than 536 CE. By some historians’ standards, it may have

Finally, a fusion reaction has generated more energy than absorbed by the fuel

A major milestone has been breached in the quest for fusion energy. For the first time, a fusion reaction has