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Months before filming his first scene as a young Stephen Hawking for the romantic biographical drama "The Theory of Everything," actor Eddie Redmayne was already hard at work trying to embody the physical characteristics of the famed theoretical…

Photo: Tom Wildoner/MNN Flickr Group   The Milky Way over Jackson Hole, Wyoming

A facelike rock formation in Germany's Zittau Mountains. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)  

Apparently, this may come as a shock to some. A new study has found that cigars are bad for you — just as bad as cigarettes.    Although cigars can contain just as many toxic substances as cigarettes, many people believe they aren't as unhealthy. That's…

Sally Fallon Morell sold me on a dream years ago. She lamented the fact that fast food was primarily composed of junk food — food that weighed us down instead of nourishing our bodies. Her hope was that someday people could sit down for a quick bowl of…

I was researching the concept of yoga moves geared toward plane travel when I stumbled across a pioneer of the topic — the author of a 1974 article for a long-defunct airline publication who called herself the inventor of airplane yoga. Her story, smartly…

First the cold hard facts: There are roughly 70 million stray dogs and cats in the U.S. at any given time. That works out to five homeless animals for every one homeless person living on the streets. These animals live in our cities, suburbs and rural…

Their navigational skills are so reliable that homing pigeons have long been used as one of the world's first forms of long distance communication, but exactly how they manage to find their way home has remained a scientific puzzle. Now a team of Swiss and…

You may be familiar with the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen produce list. Each year the organization releases a list of produce ranked by their pesticide load, and the Dirty Dozen are the top twelve fruits and vegetables that have the highest…

Last year, 33,000 African elephants were slaughtered for their ivory tusks. In Kenya, the black rhino population that was once 23,000 strong now numbers 600. In South Africa, two rhinos die every day at the hand of poachers. There are laws in place to protect…

One of the peskier realities of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is that the deadly disease cannot be identified until a person shows symptoms. It’s difficult to contain a virus when the earliest it can be diagnosed is the same point at which it becomes…

For as much as we argue about the health care system in the U.S., the quality and accessibility of it is something that many of us take for granted. In developing countries, access to health care is not a given, and for a pregnant woman, that access can mean…

  Filmmaker Yuri Ancarani spent almost a year filming in a marble quarry in the Carrara region of Italy's Apuan Alps to gather footage for his short film "Il Capo (The Chief)," which focuses on the quarry master responsible for orchestrating the extraction of…

Photo: Jaymi Heimbuch/MNN Flickr Group   This adorable snoozing seal is one of only about 1,200 individuals left in the world.

There have been so many news stories recently about how bad sitting is for our health. Studies have even shown that it could be a factor in some cancers. Researchers almost universally agree that sitting around in an office all day could be slowing killing our…

Learning your way around the kitchen is a curious thing. Many of us learn through a kind of mysterious maternal osmosis, others are shown the ropes by the pros, and some simply muddle through on their own, figuring it out as they go. Regardless of how any of…

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold a press conference in Beijing Nov. 12. (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images)