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Pregnant Women Can Basically Feel Free to Stuff Their Faces with Sushi
The results of a 30-year-long study suggest that the benefits of eating fish while pregnant seem to outweigh the risk of developmental disabilities from mercury exposure. Get your shrimp on.
Dying Is Pretty Bad for the Environment
New evidence shows that cremation may be worse for us than we thought. Which doesn't leave a whole lot of options if you're aiming for a green death.
Which Alien World Should We Land on Next?
The Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan ten years ago today. How better to celebrate than by exploring another untouched world?
More Than 100 Dead Bodies Have Surfaced in the Ganges River
Authorities have recovered at least 104 corpses from a Ganges tributary in northern India this week, possibly left by families too poor to afford cremation.
Zanzibar Has a Freddie Mercury Problem
The Queen frontman's birthplace, a semiautonomous island off Tanzania, is happy to make money off his name, despite the country's entrenched homophobia.
Bearded Filter Feeders Are the Future of the Seafood Industry
Chilean sea bass became overfished after celebrity chefs and a famous scene in Jurassic Park placed them on the international food map. But mussels, an often overlooked sea creature, are one of the most sustainable seafood options that are...
Sharks Could Be the Future of the Seafood Industry
Earlier this month, a great white shark named Julia arrived in Massachusetts. While she's likely the first one to hit the Cape this year, the species' has surging numbers that beg the question of overpopulation. Great whites are still out of bounds for...
In a First, Curiosity Watched Mercury Transit the Sun from Mars
It's not the most visually stimulating thing in the world, but transits are a nice benchmark for how we're doing in the solar system.
Damn, Summer: What August Heat Looks Like on Other Planets
A one-stop shop for appreciating Earth's warmest season.
Building Subterranean Cities on Mercury "Not So Crazy," Scientist Says
Mercury joins Mars and the Moon as a primo candidate for building an otherworldy underground colony.
Surprisingly, There's Water on Mercury
But that doesn't mean anything will be living there any time soon.