Have you noticed how nature gives its own subtle forecast clues?
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Watch Milky Way’s Stars Move 5 Million Years into the Future
April 18, 2017Astronomers have transformed star data from the Gaia and Hipparcos missions into a video that predicts stellar motions millions of years from now.
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The Key to Feeding the World? It’s Healthy Soil by David R. Montgomery — YES! Magazine
April 17, 2017Conventional farming practices that degrade soil health undermine humanity’s ability to continue feeding everyone over the long run.
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Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today
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5 Ways Henrietta Lacks Changed Medical Science
April 17, 2017The controversial history of her “immortal” cells will be the subject of an HBO movie
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Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?
April 17, 2017Tissues from millions of Americans are used in research without their knowledge. These “clinical biospecimens” are leftovers from blood tests, biopsies and surgeries.
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| Earth Optimism Summit | Smithsonian Conservation Commons
April 17, 2017When only a handful of individuals remain, you might think all is lost. Yet scientists have used their ingenuity to save species even when the situation is beyond dire, as…
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Mexico is home to 10 percent of all land species known to science, many of which are shared across North America.
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Antarctica’s Sleeping Ice Giant Could Wake Soon
April 13, 2017The massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet looks stable from above—but it’s a dangerously different story below
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A new initiative will restore NASA’s Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, bringing it back to its appearance during the Apollo days.