Everyday Science

Black balls that litter the planet may prove the best marker for a new geologic epoch recognizing humanity's outsized impacts

A team of deep divers plunges into the “twilight zone,” a little-explored region of depth between 200 and 500 feet below the surface, with two goals: "catch fish" and "stay alive".

Are some dogs safe while others are not? A recent study finds this common belief is not spot on.

The four-year study took thousands of samples at hundreds of sites

Genetic information from a 35,000-year-old wolf bone found below a frozen cliff in Siberia is shedding new light on humankind's long relationship with dogs

A tasty task from Science Buddies

New autopsy results confirm mass dolphin strandings largely stemmed from BP's 2010 Macondo well blowout

John Horgan lists 25 of his favorite science(y) books, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to Joyce's Ulysses

I recently got a job at NASA writing content for students on websites like Space Place. Luckily for me, astronomy is one of the easiest subjects to get people excited about. I mean, who doesn't like outer space and stars and comets and asteroids and—there is so much cool stuff! There are different levels of interest, sure, and someone can simply appreciate the beauty of the universe without understanding (or perhaps wanting to understand) much of the science behind it, but someone who looks up at a starry sky and doesn't feel a true sense of wonder needs to check their pulse--or blood sugar levels, at the very least.

Three strains of the virus are decimating poultry farms across the country, but how they’re being transmitted remains unclear

This week the first wave of research from scientific journals has begun to be published; Current Biology has posted a trio of papers by three different prominent competing color vision labs, each describing their initial studies of The Dress. So in celebration of the scientific enterprise and its surprise boost from the world of fashion: here is a summary of those first three studies for reading pleasure.

A new book details the success of trolls in turning the media against itself