What’s Really in Your Water?

What’s Really in Your Water?

When water is safe, there is nothing better to drink. It’s good for teeth, skin, weight control and even the ability to think straight. But drinking water contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, heavy metals or other harmful substances can cause diarrhea, brain damage, infertility and cancer. Bottled water is no guarantee of water safety. Not only…

These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs

These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs

Pair of critically endangered regent honeyeaters in Australia. Credit: AlamyAustralia’s critically endangered regent honeyeaters are losing what amounts to their culture—and that could jeopardize their success at landing a mate.Some birds are relatively easy to study. Ross Crates studies the ones that aren’t. He’s part of the Difficult Bird Research Group at the Australian National University. …

A Digital Obsession

A Digital Obsession

How to feel less stressed and more empowered and to create a life of meaning—without your phone Credit: Scientific American MIND, May-June 2021 Before the pandemic grounded most of us, if you’d ever ridden the subway or a bus, flew on a commercial flight or, heck, been anywhere in public with lots of other people,…