More from Ellen Airhart (Page 2)

A carpet of moss next to a brown rock.
Projects

Why and how to grow your own moss garden

By Ellen Airhart

A person gardening in a wooden planter box.
Projects

Plant a garden that helps the planet by devouring carbon

By Ellen Airhart

A snake plant sitting in an open cardboard box, ready for shipping.
Life Skills

How to ship your beloved houseplants across the country without killing them

By Ellen Airhart

Graph showing the price changes of saffron over the years
Environment

Six precious substances worth more than their weight in gold

By Ellen Airhart

tons of potatoes
Ask Us Anything

Is there a single food that you can survive on forever?

By Ellen Airhart

Big Q body parts
Evolution

Why your body looks so weird

By Ellen Airhart

Here’s why your brain is so bad at those ‘spot the difference’ games
Science

Here’s why your brain is so bad at those ‘spot the difference’ games

By Ellen Airhart

forest fires
Environment

The fire ‘time bomb’ is finally detonating on the world

By Ellen Airhart

What to do if you’re in a crowd of panicking people
Science

What to do if you’re in a crowd of panicking people

By Ellen Airhart

Our best bet against tick infestations might be fire
Wildlife

Our best bet against tick infestations might be fire

By Ellen Airhart

How Reddit helped fix my posture
Life Skills

How Reddit helped fix my posture

By Ellen Airhart

The banana as we know it is doomed
Diseases

The banana as we know it is doomed

By Ellen Airhart

Designer plants could help you do your laundry
Engineering

Designer plants could help you do your laundry

By Ellen Airhart

Watering space plants is hard, but NASA has a plan
Agriculture

Watering space plants is hard, but NASA has a plan

By Ellen Airhart

How to find native plants for your garden
Life Skills

How to find native plants for your garden

By Ellen Airhart

How to build a thriving indoor garden
Projects

How to build a thriving indoor garden

By Ellen Airhart

Musca Domestica housefly larva adult
Insects

The White House is infested with flies

By Ellen Airhart

This is how a molten salt nuclear reactor works
Energy

This is how a molten salt nuclear reactor works

By Ellen Airhart

If we shrink national monuments, science will suffer
Dinosaurs

If we shrink national monuments, science will suffer

By Ellen Airhart

Good news: A microwaved egg can’t permanently damage your hearing
Science

Good news: A microwaved egg can’t permanently damage your hearing

By Ellen Airhart

Rats have been in New York City since the 1700s and they’re never leaving
Animals

Rats have been in New York City since the 1700s and they’re never leaving

By Ellen Airhart

Earth worms wriggling in Martian simulation soil.
Mars

Earthworms are thriving in Martian(ish) soil

By Ellen Airhart

What Meghan Markle’s engagement ring can teach us about Southern Africa’s ancient continental crust
Environment

What Meghan Markle’s engagement ring can teach us about Southern Africa’s ancient continental crust

By Ellen Airhart

Chronic wasting disease takes years to kill deer, but it’s always terminal.
Diseases

A fatal disease is spreading among U.S. deer, but there may be a new way to detect it

By Ellen Airhart

ford factory roof
Climate Change

Companies are realizing that renewable energy is good for business

By Ellen Airhart

Meet the very good dogs who hunt down invasive species
Dogs

Meet the very good dogs who hunt down invasive species

By Ellen Airhart

This is Pepin, a dog on a mission in the Serengeti.
Animals

Five animals that do our dirty work for us

By Ellen Airhart

Sarah Porter comes in 21st place in the 2011 TCS marathon, with the help of some portable toilets.
Health

After the NYC marathon, where does all the poop go?

By Ellen Airhart

Stephen Hawking releases graduate thesis, promptly breaks internet
Science

Stephen Hawking releases graduate thesis, promptly breaks internet

By Ellen Airhart

Bee sits on yellow flower.
Bees

Want to help the bees? Keep these out of your garden.

By Ellen Airhart

One Australian island has a bold plan to annihilate all its rats
Animals

One Australian island has a bold plan to annihilate all its rats

By Ellen Airhart

The front end of a tapeworm
Animals

From tapeworm heads to weevil sex, 10 big photos of tiny things

By Ellen Airhart

A super chill microscopy method just nabbed a Nobel prize
Science

A super chill microscopy method just nabbed a Nobel prize

By Ellen Airhart

You don’t have to be at a traumatic event to be affected by it
Psychology

You don’t have to be at a traumatic event to be affected by it

By Ellen Airhart

Genetically engineered bacteria—spread by mosquito sex—could spell the end of malaria
Biology

Genetically engineered bacteria—spread by mosquito sex—could spell the end of malaria

By Ellen Airhart

Tons of living animals have floated from Japan to Oregon on plastic junk
Animals

Tons of living animals have floated from Japan to Oregon on plastic junk

By Ellen Airhart

Florida’s climate might—maybe—save a handful of America’s ash trees
Endangered Species

Florida’s climate might—maybe—save a handful of America’s ash trees

By Ellen Airhart

When growing their penises for the season, ducks bend to social pressure
Animals

When growing their penises for the season, ducks bend to social pressure

By Ellen Airhart

A frog couple has sex. The male is yellow.
Evolution

These frogs might change color to avoid confusion during orgies

By Ellen Airhart

This year’s Ig Nobel prizes for unusual research honored old man ears and the fluidity of cats
Cats

This year’s Ig Nobel prizes for unusual research honored old man ears and the fluidity of cats

By Ellen Airhart

Eel shocks scientist
Fish

One scientist’s truly shocking quest to understand eels

By Ellen Airhart

Wildfires raged over nine states for the first half of September. Here’s what will rise from the ashes.
Wildlife

Wildfires raged over nine states for the first half of September. Here’s what will rise from the ashes.

By Ellen Airhart

You don’t want these parasites to go extinct
Animals

You don’t want these parasites to go extinct

By Ellen Airhart

African wild dogs vote with sneezes on important pack issues
Dogs

African wild dogs vote with sneezes on important pack issues

By Ellen Airhart

Plesiosaurs probably took over the world using all four flippers
Animals

Plesiosaurs probably took over the world using all four flippers

By Ellen Airhart

old oak tree
Climate Change

This 1,000-year-old oak tree survived Hurricane Harvey

By Ellen Airhart

person holding a bat
Bats

Hurricane Harvey’s putting bats at risk—but help is on the way

By Ellen Airhart

The terrifying way fire ants take advantage of hurricane floods
Evolution

The terrifying way fire ants take advantage of hurricane floods

By Ellen Airhart