There is perhaps no scholar more qualified to dissect the world's energy systems on a macro scale – from food and agriculture to electricity and fuel – than Vaclav Smil. The 81-year-old Distinguished ...

(via PBS Terra) The Cascadia Subduction Zone, just off the Pacific Northwest coast, is building toward a massive earthquake and tsunami. But new research reveals an even more terrifying possibility: ...

(via PBS Eons) What does it mean to be a “semi-aquatic” dinosaur? Was it wading in the shallows, or could it have been a skilled swimmer? Each scenario paints a very different picture of Spinosaurus, ...

(via Veritasium) How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures.

Warming ocean temperatures can have similar effects. In the US, the European green crab is among the highest profile invasive species, having caused significant ecological damage along the East Coast ...