When you’re a small startup trying to survive, it’s no fun to think about the internet’s biggest unsolved problem: the horrifying ways we humans misuse social media to spread lies and hatred.

For every 1.8 degree F increase in air temperature, the maximum daily water temperature increased 0.9 to 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Although streams appeared to be buffered to some extent from increases in air temperature, the researchers expect that future warming will bring about stressful conditions for cold-water species such as brook trout.

In birds, females have the ability to control the sex of individual eggs; a mother may be able to choose whether she prefers each egg laid to be a male or female. So why don’t saltmarsh sparrows do it?

A visit to the state archives building finds the story behind the first truly accurate map of New Hampshire. Plus: Geometry!!!

Eastern North America has older rocks. These older formations have been exposed to extreme pressures and temperatures, making them harder and often denser. Faults in these older rocks have also had more time to heal, which allows seismic waves to cross them more effectively when an earthquake occurs.