What is Red Tide – and is it getting worse?
This article was originally published on March 21, 2022. Katherine Hubbard was off Florida’s Gulf Coast near Sarasota when dead and dying fish began rising to the surface of the…
Cryptologists decode the letters of Mary Queen of Scots
For years, the researchers who visit National Library of France (BnF) went through a collection of coded letters. Someone wrongly dated the letters as originating in the 1520s and wrongly…
The 1,200 bones buried in Benjamin Franklin’s house
For more than two centuries, hundreds of human bones have rested (in peace) under the London home of Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States. But…
Is Elon Musk a scientist?
Most know Musk as the founder of Tesla, co-founder of PayPal and CEO of SpaceX. And while he has done quite a bit in his lifetime in the field of…
Where is Tulum and why was it so important to the ancient Maya?
What is Tulum famous for? Well, anyone who has ever heard of the place knows it as an elderberry resortthe trendier alternative to Cancun (80 miles north) and over the…
Animal personalities can trip up science, but there is a solution
Animal personalities, A few years ago, Christian Rutz began to wonder if he was giving his ravens enough trust. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,…
What is cold fusion? Is it possible?
Curtis Berlingett was a pre-teen when he first heard about cold fusion. The concept involves generating nuclear power at room temperature, rather than heat similar to the burning core of…
The fiercest female rulers of ancient Egypt
This article was originally published on July 15, 2022. Roman visitors to ancient Egypt often wondered how women lived differently. Roman law required only a man to raise his firstborn…