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Roughly a fifth of all fish eaten globally are caught using nets towed along the bottom of the ocean. There’s long been concern that this method – known…

Living Lab Radio talks regularly with reporters at the journal Nature to get an update on the stories they've been following. Here's our latest roundup of…

This cranberry wild rice salad predates Thanksgiving by, oh, maybe millenia, and could easily replace "traditional" stuffing.The Smithsonian National…

Science is not all cut and dry, scientific method and clear, hard facts. It’s full of creative people and odd phenomena.Stories that reveal the human…

Wouldn’t it be fascinating to go back 30,000 to 50,000 years and meet the humans and Neanderthals who walked the earth? So many mysteries would be…

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives the EPA authority to regulate pollution that affects the waters of the United States. But exactly what…

We have started this new year with quite a bit of uncertainty: We're in the midst of a partial government shutdown, there are ongoing civil wars and…

Several high-profile federal and international reports this past fall highlighted the threats posed by human-caused climate change. But the words “climate…

Phosphorus celebrates its 350th birthday this year. Well, the element has been along for far longer than that. But it was discovered 350 years ago by an…

Buttons are everywhere in our lives. But why? We push buttons on dishwashers, car dashboards, doorbells, our phones, and, of course, those “like” buttons…