AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatar3 days agoYour morning coffee may be more than a half million years oldAssociated Press - By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNANThat coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.” The researchers, hoping to learn …
AvatarBBC NewsAvatarAvatarWas an extinct fox once man's best friend?verified_publisherBBC News - By Helen BriggsBBC News Our ancestors may have kept foxes as pets long before domestic dogs, archaeological evidence suggests. Was an extinct fox once man's best friend?
AvatarFlipboard Canadaflipped into ScienceAvatarAvatarLanguage doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?verified_publisherVox - Oshan JarowEven the most poetic words can’t capture the full richness of our minds. So scientists are turning to numbers. The idea that language is a clumsy, imperfect tool for capturing the depth and richness of our experiences is ancient. For centuries, a steady stream of poets, philosophers, and spiritual …
AvatarPBS NewsHourflipped into ScienceAvatarAvatarThrough gardens, these Native communities are cultivating a solution to climate changePBS NewsHour - Adam KempAs he peels back the husk of corn grown in his garden, Miko Brandon reveals deep red kernels hiding underneath. Brandon knows that unlike yellow and …
AvatarFlipboard Canadaflipped into ScienceFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPlan Now for the 2026 Total Solar Eclipse in Europeskyandtelescope.org - Jamie CarterEclipse-chasing can be complicated — and hugely rewarding. Europe’s first total solar eclipse since 1999 has some significant dilemmas, but there are …
AvatarFlipboard Canadaflipped into ScienceAvatarAvatarThe scientists learning to speak whaleverified_publisherBBC Future - Katherine LathamIn a world-first, scientists had a "conversation" with a whale. Now, researchers are trying to find out what they are actually saying.
AvatarUSA TODAYflipped into Top StoriesAvatarAvatarThis fungus turns cicadas into 'zombies' after being sexually transmittedverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Amaris Encinas, Julia GomezTurns out humans, aren’t the only creature that can ride the psychedelic wave that comes with ingesting fungus. Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly. We are talking a reaction akin to something you would see on “The Walking Dead” or maybe “The Last of Us,” as the …
AvatarTIMEAvatarAvatarWhy the White House Wants the Moon to Have Its Own Time ZoneTIME - Nik PopliEver wonder what time it is on the moon? Soon there will be an answer to that question. The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a first-ever unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies by the end of 2026, as part of a push by the U.S. to set international norms in …
AvatarAssociated PressAvatarAvatarSchools in the path of April's total solar eclipse prepare for a natural teaching momentAssociated Press - By CAROLYN THOMPSONCLEVELAND (AP) — Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” playing in teacher Nancy Morris’ classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at Cleveland’s Riverside School …
AvatarYahoo NewsAvatarAvatarScientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernovaYahoo News - Ari RabinovitchREHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded and sent elements representing the …
AvatarFlipboard Canadaflipped into ScienceAvatarAvatarA global gold rush for buried hydrogen is underway — as hype builds over its clean energy potentialverified_publisherCNBC - Sam MeredithA global gold rush is underway for a long-overlooked resource that advocates say could play a significant role in the shift away from fossil …
AvatarBBC NewsAvatarAvatarCern: Scientists search for mysterious ghost particlesverified_publisherBBC News - By Pallab GhoshBBC News Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe. Cern: Scientists search for mysterious ghost particles