Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is 200 years old
Pollution, resulting in high nitrogen levels in the Chesapeake Bay estuary in Maryland, did not start building after World War II but about a hundred years earlier.
Pokémon GO players are friendly people
People who play the wildly popular game are more physically active and likely to be experiencing positive emotions and nostalgia.
Jupiter in opposition today. Wow!
The world's beauty is joined by extraterrestrial beauty, and since Jupiter is now closer to Earth than it has been in a year, NASA took some pics.
Invest in social capital and save struggling schools
We've known for a long time that schools can't improve on their own. We wrote that in 2001, and now some new research backs up that hypothesis.
Breakthrough might save the Great Barrier Reef
Starfish feed on coral & can wipe out big sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But scientists are figuring out ways to solve that.
A badger buries a cow in Utah, all by itself
We know a little more about how scavengers cache their food supply in the Utah desert, thanks to some biologists at the University of Utah.
Genetics may predict a child’s reading ability
A London study has used a genetic scoring technique to predict reading performance throughout school years from DNA alone.
How important is the ‘GPS’ in your brain?
The hippocampus has long been known to be associated in the brain with our sense of direction or mapping the environments we navigate.
Peers or teachers: Who inspires kids more?
When it comes to inspiring students to learn, it turns out teachers in our classrooms aren't quite as important as those students' peers.
Not being afraid of being wrong helps you be right
A personality that includes a good dose of intellectual humility, or an awareness that one's beliefs may be wrong, can influence decision-making.