This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. A hammerhead shark less than one meter long swims frantically in a plastic container aboard a boat in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, off Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a delicate female Sphyrna corona, the world’s smallest hammerhead species, and goes by the local name cornuda...

Earth is bombarded by an estimated 48.5 tons of meteors and meteorites every day—and while (most) of that material luckily burns away as it hurtles through the atmosphere, smaller chunks of ancient space rock still occasionally end their multi-billion-year journeys by slamming into the planet. Of the roughly 82,000 meteorites found on Earth so far,...

TV or an app can give you some general idea of what the weather is like around your living space, but a home weather station can paint a much more accurate picture. These devices measure everything from wind speed to barometric pressure. Our best overall choice, the Ambient Weather WS-2902C offers a robust set of instruments and a handy built-in Wi-Fi...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In 2015, 76 million cubic meters of rock crashed from the rugged cliffs above a southeastern Alaska fjord and into the water below. The landslide sparked a nearly 200-meter-tall...

Spotted lanternflies are so four years ago. The hottest new bug fad isn’t even the noisy cicadas currently buzzing all over the Midwest. It’s enormous, yellow, ‘flying’ Joro spiders. Multiple articles would have you believe that there is a serious threat to humans from hoards of spiders jumping out of thin air straight on our faces. However, while the...

A cooling dog bed can go a long way toward making your pooch more comfortable during unpleasantly warm weather. Sure, your dog may simply want to pass out on the cold tile of the bathroom floor after a walk, but a dedicated bed with cooling features adds a level of comfort with which a hard floor just can’t compete. While some cooling bed options rely...