‘Green’ burials are slowly gaining ground among environmentalists
Despite “green” burials becoming increasingly available in North America, some older eco-conscious adults remain unaware of the option when planning for their deaths, a...
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Black hole visionaries push the boundaries of knowledge in a new film
Black holes sit on the cusp of the unknowable. Anything that crosses a black hole’s threshold is lost forever, trapped by an extreme gravitational...
Predatory octopuses were drilling into clamshells at least 75 million years ago
Tiny holes in three fossil clams reveal that by 75 million years ago, ancient octopuses were deviously drilling into their prey. The find pushes...
A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories
The upbeat song Sweet Caroline often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the song for an older...
‘Gory Details’ dives into the morbid, the taboo — and our minds
Gory DetailsErika EngelhauptNational Geographic, $26 We tend to turn away, physically or metaphorically, from things we find unsavory: leggy insects, bodily fluids, conversations about...
An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
An ancient bone from a dog, discovered in a cave in southeast Alaska, hints at when and how humans entered the Americas at the...
What you need to know about J&J’s newly authorized one-shot COVID-19 vaccine
And then there were three: A single-shot vaccine is the latest weapon to join the battle against COVID-19 in the United States. On February...
Global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination is more than a moral problem
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. By...
Can a COVID-19 vaccine’s second dose be delayed? It’s complicated
Within a couple weeks after a first vaccine dose, people are well protected against severe COVID-19, new data suggest. With demand for shots far...
Solar storms can wreak havoc. We need better space weather forecasts
Since December 2019, the sun has been moving into a busier part of its cycle, when increasingly intense pulses of energy can shoot out...
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