Kids these days, amiright? (Credit: aastock/Shutterstock) Ugh. Kids these days. They’ve got no respect. They dress all weird. They’re always on their phones. And don’t get me started on their music! Versions of this argument have echoed through editorials, taverns, hair salons and Roman bathhouses for millennia. Kids these days […]
(Image: © Shutterstock) Here’s the reality: We’re messing up the Earth and any far-out ideas of colonizing another orb when we’re done with our own are wishful thinking. That’s according to Michel Mayor, an astrophysicist who was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics this year for discovering the first planet […]
An aerial view of trucks queueing on the BR163 in Brazil’s Para state—one of two major transport routes that have played a key role in the development and destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest Trucker Erik Fransuer spends months at a time driving back and forth on highways […]
Manmade carbon emissions have seen CO2 levels rise two thirds in a span of a few centuries Human activity churns out up to 100 times more planet-warming carbon each year as all the volcanoes on Earth, says a decade-long study released Tuesday. The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), a 500-strong international […]
Modern-day baby feeding from reconstructed infant feeding vessel of the type investigated here. Credit: Helena Seidl da Fonseca A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found the first evidence that prehistoric babies were fed animal milk using the equivalent of modern-day baby bottles. Possible infant feeding […]
The Legacy Children should be seen, heard listened to and understood. If ignored or suppressed, they should inscribe their will across the skies of their time, forcing hypocrisy and inhumanity to confront the light of day. And only they shall determine their means. If they do not, when the architects […]
To understand climate change, one environmental historian says we need to realize we’ve entered a new era: the capitalocene. PHOTOGRAPH: MONIKA SKOLIMOWSKA/GETTY IMAGES You and I have the unfortunate honor of facing down a crisis the likes of which our species has never before seen. Rapid climate change of our […]
Power station in South Africa. Credit: Therina Groenewald/Shutterstock As someone who has been working on climate change detection and its causes for over 20 years I was both surprised and not surprised that I was asked to write on this topic by The Conversation. For nearly allclimate scientists, the case is proven that humans […]
Prior research identified four distinct dating trajectories from 6th to 12th grade: Low, Increasing, High Middle School, and Frequent. In a new study published in the Journal of School Health, researchers found that adolescents who were not in a romantic relationship had good social skills and low depression, and fared better or equal to peers […]
Ever-widening divisions between Democrats and Republicans are believed to reflect deeply rooted ideological differences, but a new study points to a radically different interpretation: The side taken by each party may be mostly a matter of luck. It’s a phenomenon that Michael Macy, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences […]