California's very wet winter gifted the state a spectacular superbloom—an explosion of flowers that delighted hikers and should have been great news for bees.
A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth.
In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Aššur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC. Their material has now been identified as amber using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ...
If you are a third grader, your chances of growing up to be a computer scientist is likely to heavily depend on your gender—a situation Allison Master says is just plain wrong.
An interdisciplinary group of researchers is proposing a new way to think of some interactions between species, classifying a variety of plants, animals and fungi as "nature's chefs." Specifically, nature's chefs are organisms ...
Many have observed that sometimes when given a toy as a present, children play with the box the toy came in, or even the gift wrapping.
Woolen clothing has been around for as long as humans have been wearing clothes and sheep have been domesticated. Indeed, our distant ancestors used sheep for three things: food, clothing and shelter—wool makes good insulation ...
Canada's inflation rate has started to ease up after peaking at 8.1% last summer, but food and shelter prices are showing little sign of slowing down.
A new study underscores the role that parents play as a safety net for their young adult children as those children navigate the labor market, and highlights the challenges facing young adults who do not have access to parental ...
The Chinese "spy balloon" shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines. Balloons have long been used for espionage—and not just for surveillance, ...
