1.3 billion tons of food is being wasted each year. Can we stop it?
Roughly one-third of all food produced on Earth is either wasted or lost somewhere along the way from the farm to our bellies, according to...
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What it’s like to be a working witch VIEW
“If you think being a witch is just sitting around doing spells all the time, you think wrong,” says a Los Angeles-based witch. “Half my...
Scientists find signs of new brain cells in adults as old as 79
In a report published in Cell Stem Cell, scientists from Columbia University present new evidence that human brains continue to make hundreds of new neurons...
Evolve or die: Why our ancestors learned to be social more than 320,000 years ago
The work, published as three papers Thursday in Science, sheds new light on the often murky story of when our ancestors first started acting like...
New blood test can detect early signs of 8 hidden cancers
The test is the first to screen for the eight forms of cancer responsible for more than 60 percent of U.S. cancer deaths, authors say....
DNA analysis solves the ‘Yeti’ mystery: They’re bears
After analyzing nine purported Yeti specimens, scientists found that the preserved “Yetis” were in fact bears. But they discovered some cool stuff about the bears...