There is perhaps no scholar more qualified to dissect the world's energy systems on a macro scale – from food and agriculture to electricity and fuel – than Vaclav Smil. The 81-year-old Distinguished ...

(via PBS Terra) The Cascadia Subduction Zone, just off the Pacific Northwest coast, is building toward a massive earthquake and tsunami. But new research reveals an even more terrifying possibility: ...

(via PBS Eons) What does it mean to be a “semi-aquatic” dinosaur? Was it wading in the shallows, or could it have been a skilled swimmer? Each scenario paints a very different picture of Spinosaurus, ...

Warming ocean temperatures can have similar effects. In the US, the European green crab is among the highest profile invasive species, having caused significant ecological damage along the East Coast ...

(via Veritasium) How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures.

(via SciShow) We've all heard of the Rosetta Stone, either the language-learning software or the stone itself. But how much do you really know about it? Let's get into the full history of this icon of ...

When we think of hernias, we often think of our abdomen or groin, and that is where hernias most often occur. But a hernia simply describes when a tissue or organ escapes or protrudes from the cavity ...

(via MinuteEarth) Despite the fact that we've been trying to exterminate coyotes for hundreds of years, the species is thriving because of a special trait that causes their population to grow whenever ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

(via PBS Terra) Very few dinosaurs made it as far North as the Arctic Circle. But two of those - Pachyrhinosaurus and Edmontosaurus - undertook an epic migration every year to reach the fertile ...