Historical culling: Mass Yellowstone hunt kills 1,100 bison
Officials said they had no choice but to approve the lengthy culling of the roughly 6,000-member herd as the animals instinctually cross the park...
This is what it sounds like when plants cry
Stressed plants make audible sounds that can be heard many feet away, and the type of sound corresponds with the kind of bad day they are having. The...
Can India change the world?
As India overtakes China as the most populous country, and as companies seek new bases for manufacturing, India has an opportunity to recover its mojo...
Health corner Shaking up the fundamentals: Is BMI a scam?
Introduced in the 1830s by a Belgian statistician who wanted to quantitatively describe the “average man,” the calculation was named the body mass...
Diplomacy matters Do the US need a Cold War with China?
While locked down, we found out that my wife, who is Chinese, was pregnant. It took a combination of bluster and desperate pleas to local officials to...
Elusive ‘Einstein’ solves a longstanding math problem
I’m always messing about and experimenting with shapes,” said Smith, 64, who worked as a printing technician, among other jobs, and retired early....
A sting operation to save elephants, with no stings
“Human-elephant conflict feeds into the issue of local people being recruited into poaching gangs,” said Francesca Mahoney, founder and director of...
Doling out huge loans, China ‘bails out’ nations
Some countries, like Mongolia, now hold much of their currency reserves in renminbi, after previously holding them mainly in dollars, said Brad Parks,...
