In 1799, during the French invasion of Egypt, a slab of black basalt was discovered in Rashid, a town also known as Rosetta. It bore inscriptions in...
“My parents told me about being good stewards and leaving the world a better place than when we enter it,” Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo shares in...
Wood frogs croaking, salamanders crawling, egg masses floating, and fairy shrimp swimming—these are the sights and sounds of vernal pools in the early spring. Vernal pools are...
Watch, listen, breathe, and visualize as gentle narration guides the head-to-toe muscle relaxation process for one minute and 25 seconds. Starting from the feet and gradually moving...
As a large-carnivore ecologist, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant researches black bear behavior, movement patterns, and their interactions within human environments. “The only reason they would come into a...
Memories are like mental snapshots of our past experiences, knowledge, or events stored in our brains. They include things we’ve learned, felt, seen, or heard, and they...
Water bunds, Earth-smiles, half-moons, demi-lunes. This drought-fighting conservation technique has many names, but the goal is always the same: capture and sink water into an arid landscape...
An international expedition off the coasts of Chile and Peru recently plunged into “uncharted oases for biodiversity,” the Southeast Pacific’s seamounts, underwater mountains that rise from the...
In 2014, Numberphile’s Brady Haran, StandUp Maths’ Matt Parker, and a dedicated runway unrolling crew revealed what the first one million digits of pi (π) would look...
“Screech owls are masters (and mistresses) of camouflage,” Dan Ballard narrates in this Texas Backyard Wildlife video. “There’s a screech owl in this picture – we swear...
Over the course of four cold nights in 2011, Lichtfaktor Crew partnered with a large team to light paint animal animations across Cologne, Germany. The viral clips...
Describing them as the “best alarm system,” zoologist Savanna Wheeler introduces the two species of guinea fowl inhabiting the Dallas Zoo’s North Savanna habitat. The birds’ chirps...
If you’ve ever wanted to memorize 200 digits of pi (π or 3.14—the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter) or if you’re getting ready for Pi...