Snow is beautiful. Please don’t eat it.
You know the phrase "pure as driven snow?" Yeah, it's entirely bunk. A timely warning to residents of Mid-Atlantic cities about to get dumped with potentially record-breaking quantities of the...
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Determining death may depend on which state, hospital you’re in
The narrow, inscrutable zone between undeniably still here and unequivocally gone includes a range of states that look like life but may not be: a beating heart, a functioning digestive...
Startling new discovery: 600 million years ago, a single biological mistake changed everything.
If life is effectively an endless series of photocopies, as DNA is transcribed and passed on from one being to the next, then evolution is the high-stakes game of waiting...
How the government got into the tricky business of telling Americans what to eat
A person theoretically could live on meat alone, but it would be "a very one-sided and imperfect diet." "Ashes" - however unappetizing they might seem - are essential to nutrition....
When are you dead? It may depend on which hospital makes the call
The narrow, inscrutable zone between undeniably still here and unequivocally gone includes a range of states that look like life but may not be: a beating heart, a functioning digestive...
Former Chinese regulator commits suicide in wake of deadly landslide
A week after a mountainous waste heap in the Chinese city of Shenzhen collapsed, burying dozens of people and killing at least two, an official once responsible for regulating the...
Pair of brothers may have cracked cold case over Christmas break
On a November night in 2010, gunfire lit up a dark, desert canyon near Utah's Dead Horse State Park. It was a brief, brutal confrontation that brought both parties to...
North Face co-founder turned ‘eco baron’ Douglas Tompkins is killed in Chile kayaking accident
In 1985, Douglas Tompkins was the millionaire co-founder of two successful clothing companies, the North Face and Esprit. He was courted by magazine editors and politicians, revered by the San...
Georgia 6-year-old finds gun in couch cushion, fatally shoots herself
Ja'Mecca Smith was the youngest of seven children, the baby of the family. She loved tic-tac-toe and the Disney movie "Frozen" and the color red. She was a member of...
DNA sheds light on mysterious, big-toothed, Siberian human relatives
Like a distant cousin you only know from stories, the Denisovans are just a hazy, hinted-at presence on the human family tree. We know they lived tens of thousands of...