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While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
Natural navigator Tristan Gooley joins us to discuss the philosophy of reading nature’s hidden clues — and how relearning this ancient skill can help us see the world, and ourselves, with greater awareness.
In this excerpt from "Seven Rivers," historian Vanessa Taylor explores how Ancient Egyptian pharaohs harnessed the Nile River to build empires and secure their power.
In this excerpt from "The Story of CO2," Peter Brennan explains how changes in the Earth's ecosystem led to fire, which in turn led our ancestors to become the "fire apes."
A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.
Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil.
The recent discovery of a large cave on the Moon highlights the importance of caves not just for future space explorers but astrobiology as well.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
Scientists are working to map out the risks of the permafrost thaw, which could expose millions of people to the invisible cancer-causing gas.
Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.
Sometimes called “the new gold,” sand is the second most exploited natural resource in the world after fresh water.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country's total beef consumption.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
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Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
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De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Slimy biofilms made up of bacterial and eukaryotic life forms have taken over an abandoned, flooded uranium mine in Germany.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
From synthetic biology to xenotransplantation, biotech will continue to march forward in 2023, in part powered by data and AI.
If dogs are out in coats and boots, how are the squirrels feeling?