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Image: AP The Attorney General of California sent an 11-page letter to the Interior Department, vowing to fight an April executive order from Trump that could potentially resize or even revoke the protected status of six different monuments in the state. The executive order cleared Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to review 26 national…

Photo: Getty Whiskey tastes like warm poison. To be fair, if you add an ice cube to the mix, it tastes like chilly poison. Even my very nice mom, in her infinite wisdom, once described whiskey as “horrible shit.” Nevertheless, those who insist there is a difference between good and bad whiskey will be happy…

Image: Tomas Quinones/Flickr You do not mess with ravens. Because if you dupe them, they’ll remember. Or so says a team of Austrian and Swedish scientists. In a small study on captive-bred ravens, they found that the birds remembered when scientists tricked them out of getting a good treat. Such a study has important implications…

Image: AP In the early 20th century, seeking riches, fur and its medicinal qualities, the people of Europe hunted the Eurasian beaver to near extinction. Clever scientists, though, had an idea of how to atone for their sins. The North American beaver, at least from the outside, seemed nearly identical. They would introduce this far-flung…

Purple stone crab (Photo; Nahuel Farias/Flickr) Lots of species do some wild sex stuff. The purple stone crab is no exception: Females have seminal receptacles, a special organ that just holds and stores sperm for later. Researchers studying the purple stone crab’s female parts wanted to get a better look at these sperm holders. But…

Why Those Little Plastic Microbeads in Your Soap Are So Bad This week, Illinois became the first state in the country to ban exfoliating plastic beads. Good… Read more A single bottle of Johnson & Johnson’s Clean & Clear has over 330,000 of the tiny plastic beads, and as you rinse your face in the…