How Pollination Affects Chocolate Production
Tiny flies that pollinate cacaos are struggling, and this could affect our supply of chocolate Credit: brebca/Getty ImagesIt’s almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao pollination. The crop’s sustainability currently appears to depend
Biden Administration Bets $74 Million on ‘Enhanced’ Geothermal Power
A Department of Energy grant aims to cut the cost of new geothermal systems that generate electricity from heat that is miles undergroundA Super Pink Moon rises as a strong wind blows steam escaping from the Leathers Geothermal Facility, a power plant that taps into deep underground heat near the Salton Sea at the southern tip
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She went on to complete a rigorous training program and build a successful career as a veterinary internal medicine specialist. But in March 2020
Five-Eyed, Nozzle-Nosed Oddity Lingered Far beyond the Cambrian Period
This ancient creature swam in surprisingly modern seasMieridduryn visualized. Credit: Franz AnthonyMore than a century ago paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott uncovered a very strange fossil in Canada. The finger-sized animal was utterly alien compared to anything around today: it looked like a lobster tail with five eyes and a nozzlelike trunk at one end. This
Has Anyone Created a Black Hole on Earth?
Credit: Jennifer Lamberth/EyeEm/Getty ImagesIn the popular imagination, black holes are voracious monstrosities gulping down anything in their vicinity. That is why there are occasional worries that physicists might accidentally or intentionally create one, perhaps inside a particle accelerator such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva. Would such a dark behemoth swallow
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