It's bad to waste food. Like, really bad.
Your regular reminder that humans still waste way too much food
Low-carb diets lose their benefits when you go hard on animal products
Eliminating carbs isn't necessarily a bad thing, you just have to be smart about it.
Why do we think tiny things are cute?
There are a few reasons, but we're hard-wired to find small things adorable.
As summers get hotter, death tolls will rise
Unless we do something, as heatwaves become more common, death rates will skyrocket.
Comparing the limits of 'unlimited' smartphone data plans
You get access to lots of data, but it may not be very fast.
Before Jupiter got huge, it had a pretty messed up childhood
Pebbles and planetesimals pummeled the planet's early surface
This beautiful map of Earth's atmosphere shows a world on fire
Salt, smoke, and dust.
Google says its search can't be biased—that's not how search works
It's not politics. It's the internet.
A new type of neuron lurks in the human brain, and we have no idea what it does
Break out your botanical dictionary. You’re going to need it.
Guess which two countries account for a third of all gun deaths
These maps show where the burden of gun violence falls.
Here's the simple law behind your shrinking gadgets
Transistors get smaller and your computer gets faster.
We trained crows to pick up garbage, but can we teach ourselves?
A game for birds became an educational one for humans.
Sexually transmitted diseases are at an all time high (again). But why?
Here's what you should know about the CDC's new data.
Another AI winter could usher in a dark period for artificial intelligence
It's happened before.
The weirdest things we learned this week: baby skeleton art, zombie presidents, and solar-powered telegraphs
Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.
It's not your imagination, humidity really is killing you
Hot and humid weather prevents your body from cooling itself down.
All the best new gadgets from the 2018 IFA consumer electronics show
Lots of new gadgets abound.
Yellowstone thrived after its 1988 fires, but dry summers threaten all progress
Extremely hot, dry weather is no longer as rare as it used to be.
University supercomputers are science's unsung heroes, and Texas will get the fastest yet
The machine is called Frontera.
Hurricane season has been quiet so far, but the Atlantic is finally waking up
It's still too soon to know if anything will threaten the United States.