A massive dust storm over Mongolia and China is revealed in magenta tones in this screenshot from a time-lapse animation of Himawari-9 satellite images acquired on March 21, 2023. Please…
If you go back in time and accidentally kill one of your ancestors, what will happen to you? When it comes to time travel hypotheses, it is one of the…
“Look in the mirror,” it begins You are all Sanpakua health card from 1965, written by macrobiotic advocate and anti-war Protestant George Osawa. There you see the whites of your…
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a new psychotherapy method used to treat people’s past traumas—or the painful symptoms caused by distressing experiences. But unlike regular psychotherapy treatment,…
In the early morning hours of September 19, 1910, Mary Hiller awoke in the Chicago home she shared with her husband and four children. The gas lamp at the top…
I often toss and turn at night. If the breeze whispers through the curtains, I get up; if the car starts i’m wide awake. And, it seems, I’m not alone.…
The average person in the US uses a huge amount of plastic – a lot more than in other countries. And that number has increased in recent decades. Plastic waste…
In late 2019 and early 2020, bushfires in Australia destroyed the habitats of millions of animals, as well as the homes of thousands of people. UNICEF calculated that the fires…
As well as heavy snows closed parts of Yosemite National Park in California, it’s a good reminder that when visiting one of the 63 national parks in the US, always…
For better or worse, humans have sent a coffin’s worth of other animals into space. This veritable zoo of space travelers includes dogs, mice, fish, turtles, frogs, spiders and non-human…