If you’ve been meaning to give meditation a try and you’ve been putting it off, here’s your official invitation: A new collaboration between Headspace and the National Parks Foundation is bringing you guided meditations and bedtime stories straight from your favorite parks. Headspace, a meditation app that offers “sleepcast” bedtime stories to help you wind [...]
In the deserts of southwest Africa, a small bird called the Namaqua sandgrouse hides a big secret. To bring water back to its young, the bird has a sort of water reservoir hidden in its feathers. A new study from the Royal Society Interface investigated just how this desert-dwelling bird is able to do this, [...]
As well as spending three years in the British Special Forces and hosting numerous TV shows like Running Wild, our adventurer Bear Grylls has also broken numerous records on land, sea and in the air – and in 2009, he entered the Guinness Book of Records at age 34 as the youngest Chief Scout, a [...]
In the Scottish Highlands, you can find a unique landscape: Caledonian pinewoods that are direct descendants of trees dating all the way back to the last ice age, but these forests are in grave danger. The main culprit? Deer. The solution? It’s complicated. A new study published by Trees for Life, which is working to regenerate [...]
