Share this on WhatsApp Most people tend to think of Venus as completely uninhabitable, given that its surface temperature hovers around 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius), which doesn’t seem very inviting. But I have long championed the idea that life could exist in the thick cloud decks that shroud the planet. In my 1997 […]
Share this on WhatsApp This summer the American Postal Workers Union filed a grievance against the U.S. Postal Service over the agency’s plans to decommission 671 mail-sorting machines at facilities across the country. Although a few such machines are normally replaced each year because of wear and tear, this mass removal would involve a significant […]
Share this on WhatsApp Robin Hood famously stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Young, newly hatched barn owls do something similar. On average, barn owls raise six chicks at once—and sometimes as many as nine. But they don’t all hatch at the same time, which means the older owlets are generally larger […]
