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• India is inaugurating its first “red road” to save wildlife, and the trick is not fences or speed cameras, but a surface that forces drivers to slow down almost without realizing it.
• Scientists have discovered that a “young” region of Mars did not cool as quickly as previously thought, and that its magmatic system continued to evolve quietly for millions of years
• Psychology suggests that the loneliest people in life are not usually the outcasts, but rather those kind, competent, and always-available individuals whom everyone values, but whom almost no one calls to ask how they are doing because they seem too strong to need care
• Everest pales in comparison to what has been found beneath Africa and the Pacific
• A 183-million-year-old black rock is broken open in Germany, and the golden sheen of this Jurassic fossil turns out to be something other than what everyone had believed for decades
• Goodbye to toilet paper: your days are numbered, and thousands of people are already using these cleaner, cheaper, and more eco-friendly alternatives
• Engineers have developed a material capable of self-repairing more than 1,000 times, which promises to extend the service life of key components in airplanes, cars, and wind turbines for centuries
• Psychology tells us that adults who DON’T have close friends aren’t necessarily introverted or cold; many simply learned long ago that letting others get too close was the quickest way to get hurt
• Perhaps the biggest problem with electric cars isn’t the battery, but a magnet that fails in the heat
• “We were looking for rocks, but instead we found an abandoned nuclear bunker,” admits Alex Gardner: that day, 240 km off the coast of Greenland, when a research aircraft discovered tunnels laid out in a checkerboard pattern and secrets from 1959 that are now coming to light