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Suburban yards are now filled with foxes, feral cats, deer, coyotes, rabbits, and other critters than used to live in the woods. This is not only because we’ve hunted their predators to extinction, but also because we no longer clear-cut the land before building on it. In other words, many of us are now living IN the woods and sharing it with a variety of wild animals.

This is even true in big cities: 24% of New York City is now covered by over 5 million trees.
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The British Royal Academy of Engineering has completed a study of the UK power grid showing that it is relatively well prepared to weather a solar superstorm–but the opposite is true in the United States.

It turns out that explosive eruptions of energy from the sun are fairly common. In BBC News, Jonathan Amos quotes the UK study as saying that If a solar superstorm struck the Earth, the effects on the UK would be "challenging but not cataclysmic."

He quotes space engineer Keith Ryden as saying, "Fortunately, satellites are already designed to deal with a lot of this space weather."
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We understand why we perspire when we’re exercising–as our sweat evaporates, it cools off our body. But why do we sweat so much when we’re under stress? And this is the really stinky kind of sweat, the kind we apply deodorant to try to stave off.

And we’re under more stress than ever: Americans spent almost $3 billion on deodorants and antiperspirants in 2011, an increase of 13% from 2008, when the current recession first hit.
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Research on an ancient lunar rock suggests that almost 4 billion years ago, the moon once had a molten, core of liquid metal that generated a strong magnetic field.

The Daily Galaxy quotes planetary scientist Benjamin Weiss as saying, "The moon has this protracted history that’s surprising."

In 1969, the Apollo 11 mission brought the first lunar rocks back to Earth as souvenirs from Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic moonwalk. Since then, scientists have studied them for clues to the moon’s history. They soon discovered that many rocks were magnetized, which suggested that the moon may have harbored a convecting metallic core that produced a large magnetic field, now recorded in the moon’s rocks.
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