Natalie Shoemaker

Natalie Shoemaker

Contributing Writer

Natalie has been writing professionally for about 6 years. After graduating from Ithaca College with a degree in Feature Writing, she snagged a job at PCMag.com where she had the opportunity to review all the latest consumer gadgets. Since then she has become a writer for hire, freelancing for various websites. In her spare time, you may find her riding her motorcycle, reading YA novels, hiking, or playing video games. Follow her on Twitter: @nat_schumaker

We're seeing a shift in our economy toward subscription-based programs.
Algorithms are in charge of hiring people and data collection. You should have the right to know what they're saying about you.
Let's first cut carbon emissions that don't make positive returns on human happiness.
Researchers track thousands of healthy honeybees to figure out what's leading to their decline.
Couldn't we just get all the nutrients we need from food?
An influx of humans into any environment can mean trouble for the local animal population.
Disagreement helps prevent a company from becoming stale and succumbing to groupthink.
With the amount of destruction we're causing, is it time we curbed our own population?
Apes share some very human characteristics, displaying intelligence, language, and now, possibly, speech. So, what does it mean to be human, exactly?
Dr. Christopher Watson explains the barriers to finding another haven for human life.
Meet the man who's offering the gateway drug to get everyone on board with Elon Musk's solar-fueled future.
Consider the octopus: a creature, researchers say, unlike anything here on Earth.
Researchers find out the origins of an ancient feud.
Economists have been experimenting with randomized controlled trials to find out.