Environment

Do you prefer your worms crispy or juicy? How would you like your scorpion served? These are not unusual questions in some parts of the world. Although the Western world has only a few species approved for human consumption, there is a long list of insects appreciated for thousands of years around the world. 

February 2, 2020 14:10

Discover the taste of worms, scorpions, and stinkbugs as they are eaten across the world, including the US. 

February 2, 2020 13:41

Petrified wood is a fossil of an ancient tree. When a tree or a branch is buried deep in sediment with the lack of oxygen, which protects it from rotting and then undergoes mineralization, it created fossilized, or petrified wood. 

February 2, 2020 09:42

What if the future generations could not be able to experience nature the same way you did? The goal of wildlife conservation is making sure that it does not happen.

February 2, 2020 07:43

Birds and animals that mate for life find many evolutionary benefits: food sourcing, protecting their young, nurturing a litter or multiple pups, and much more.

February 1, 2020 06:53

Those with birthdays in December are lucky to have this stunning “generation” stone added to their list of birthstones.

January 31, 2020 21:05

The existence of the Higgs boson helps us get a little closer to discovering more about our universe. 

January 31, 2020 14:12

Gray whales are the only living descendants of their genus, which appeared over 30 million years ago.

January 31, 2020 14:05

Is a bee an insect, or is it a bug? We use words like insects or bugs in everyday language almost interchangeably, but rarely anyone other than entomologists thinks about those classifications.

January 31, 2020 13:51

Like humans, stars are also born at a certain time and place, and their birthplaces are what astronomers call nebulae or star nurseries.

January 31, 2020 13:46

An event horizon can be described as a point of no return - a cosmical prison that not even the light itself can ever escape, a threshold beyond which no events can affect the observer.

January 31, 2020 13:11

When purchasing an ammolite gemstone, you are getting something exceptional, a gem rarer than nearly all others and shaped beneath the ocean for millions of years. 

January 31, 2020 10:30

Spinels can be quite remarkable: red spinels were commonly mistaken for rubies and blue ones - for sapphires. 

January 31, 2020 10:20

Following intensive conservation efforts, the tiger population has begun to rise in most Indian states. Some of the states with the highest tiger populations include Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Uttarakhand.

January 30, 2020 11:09

Birds are among the most delicate of all animal groups, and any slight change in the ecosystem throws them off their pace and threatens to wipe them out.

January 30, 2020 05:21

Citrine has been said to hold the power of the sun and was believed to improve mood, help with coping with novel environments, fighting fears, and melancholia.

January 30, 2020 01:27

Across the European Union, 44% of the batteries released to the market were recycled in 2016.

January 29, 2020 11:29

A tsunami is a significant series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water in an ocean.

January 28, 2020 16:30

One-third of species in the US are currently at risk or of conservation concern. Over 500 species are already extinct or missing.

January 28, 2020 11:15

Cheetahs are classified as vulnerable, meaning their numbers have been declining, especially during the course of the 20th century.

January 27, 2020 09:40