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Ten Minutes of Daily Exercise May Unlock Deeper Sleep
Oct 18
You don't need long workouts to sleep better. A new study suggests that moving a little every day — even ten minutes — is…
Your Supermarket’s Carbon Numbers May Not Be Measured
Oct 18
Almost all of a supermarket's carbon footprint lies in its supply chain. A new analysis shows how little of the headline number is actually…
Classic Nature Books: Five to Read Slowly Over Tea
Oct 18
Five classic nature books, from Gilbert White’s Selborne letters to Walden and The Hidden Life of Trees, with a short note on who will…
Pride and Prejudice Summary: Key Ideas of Austen’s Classic
Oct 18
A concise Pride and Prejudice summary: the plot, the people and the big ideas of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, and why it still charms…
Chabacano Poetry: A New Anthology in Asia’s Spanish Creole
Oct 17
Editor Jerome Herrera on Sombra y Luz, a new anthology of Chabacano poetry from Zamboanga, and the debate over how Spanish Asia’s only Spanish-based…
How Ukrainian Small Businesses Survive Five Years of War
Oct 17
Journalist Victoria Belim-Frolova explains how Ukrainian small businesses, many run by women, adapt to war by shrinking, moving, selling online and holding communities together.
Are Viruses Alive? New Discovery Blurs the Line
Oct 17
Are viruses alive? A new discovery of viruses that blur into the cell's own compartments gives the old debate fresh material.
The Shanidar Neanderthal: A 75,000-Year-Old Spear Wound
Oct 17
A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave carries a spear wound through the shoulder blade — possibly the oldest wooden-spear kill ever found.
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Plant That Grew Sheep
Oct 16
For centuries Europeans debated a plant that grew woolly lambs. Thom Sliwowski traces the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from Mandeville to fern roots and…
Jaume Amigó: Painting Silence as a Form of Resistance
Oct 16
Catalan artist Jaume Amigó explains how memory, Bashō, Japan and Morocco shape his abstract painting — and why silence and beauty can resist a…
Microplastics, Explained: The Hidden Chemistry of Tiny Plastic
Oct 16
Microplastics turn chemically active in water, a new Nature study finds — generating reactive molecules that may damage cells. Here is what the science…
How Neurons Communicate: The Brain’s Lightning-Fast Language
Oct 16
Billions of brain cells trade chemical messages in under a millisecond. Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof explains the vesicles, molecular zippers and calcium sensors that…
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