Climate change will accelerate extreme weather events in the coming years
Humanity is now facing an ever-increasing threat of unpredictable and extreme weather, climate scientists warn.While global warming is creating more powerful storms and record-breaking, drought-driven...
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Seawater is infiltrating a nuclear waste dump on a remote Pacific atoll
Seawater is infiltrating the Runit Dome, an atomic bomb-waste repository on a remote Marshall Island atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, posing a potential risk of radiation exposure for the small,...
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Israeli scientists complete a mock mission to Mars
A team of six Israeli researchers on Sunday ended a four-day Mars habitat experiment in Israel's Negev desert where they simulated living conditions on the Red Planet, Israel's Science and Technology...
View ArticleMore details but no answers in brain trauma cases of US diplomats in Cuba
It’s a mystery fit for a Cold War-era spy novel. In late 2016, officials with the US embassy in Havana started hearing strange noises that seemed to be directed right at their homes or hotel rooms.Most...
View ArticleWrong beach? Two British towns may not actually be where Caesar landed in 55...
The county of Kent in southern England is a fairly peaceful place today — think rolling fields, cozy pubs and picturesque beaches. But it wasn’t always this way.More than 2,000 years ago something...
View ArticleRussian bots seize on Parkland shooting to amplify messages
After every high-casualty mass shooting, there's a lot of heated political debate over how to interpret what happened and how to prevent the next one. The Parkland, Florida, tragedy is no exception,...
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Dreading 'Day Zero' when the taps run dry in Cape Town
A tough water-saving regime and the generosity of farmers have given South Africa's main tourist hub welcome respite from a severe drought and helped push back a dreaded "Day Zero" when Cape Town's...
View ArticleIn autocratic China, leakers beware
When the Panama Papers linked President Xi Jinping's brother-in-law and relatives of seven other one-time members of China's top leadership to offshore companies, the authorities reacted quickly. They...
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Where does language come from?
Humans are the only creatures on Earth that can choke on their own food.Yes, that’s right. Because we have funky plumbing. There’s a crucial split in our throats — one path that leads to the esophagus...
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Subsistence hunters adapt to a warming Alaska with new tools
Minus 8 degrees. That was the temperature one recent day in Shishmaref in far-western Alaska — frigid for most of us, but pretty good for Dennis Davis, because minus 8 means good ice formation on the...
View ArticleBering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks
The Bering Sea has lost roughly half its sea ice over the past two weeks and has more open water than ever measured at this time of year.“This is unprecedented,” said Brain Brettschneider, a climate...
View ArticleVenezuela hopes new cryptocurrency is a 'silver bullet' for economic woes
People are fascinated by cryptocurrency. It’s not hard to see the appeal — you could make millions.And that’s what Venezuela seems to be counting on. This week, Venezuela launched the petro, the...
View ArticleLooking for the fountain of youth? Try looking in the tunnels inhabited by...
Naked mole rats may not be the most attractive creatures on the planet, but what they lack for in looks, researchers say, they more than make up for in genetic wonders.The list of biological anomalies...
View ArticleMore states join the fight to reduce global warming
While the Trump administration moves to block the Clean Power Plan, which would reduce carbon emissions from electric generators, two more states are joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative...
View Article5G wireless debuts at Olympics to nonplussed fans
The Pyeongchang Winter Games was supposed to be the coming-out party for 5G, the next generation of wireless technology — but few people noticed. And some of those who did were unimpressed."It was OK,"...
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Solar energy gets an endurance boost from salt
A project in the Nevada desert offers a compelling solution to a problem that has long bedeviled the solar power industry: How to store energy from the sun for use at times when the sun doesn’t...
View ArticleEnvironmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades
In 2008, Harley-Davidson started selling the Screamin' Eagle line of motorcycle tuners. The small, neon-orange box, when put on a regular motorcycle, allowed owners to “tune” the efficiency of their...
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Fed up with high rates, a Colorado city considers ditching its utility and...
When Manny and Roz de Lizarriturri retired from their advertising jobs near Philadelphia, they wanted to explore the United States in their RV. So the married couple of 33 years got out a map. “We...
View ArticleA cure for the flu? It could be as simple as sitting under a lamp.
It’s an annual rite of fall and winter that everyone tries to avoid: flu season. This season, the influenza virus has been particularly brutal in the United States, claiming the lives of 84 children in...
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It’s taken thousands of years, but Western science is finally catching up to...
Our knowledge of what the denizens of the animal kingdom are up to, especially when humans aren’t around, has steadily increased over the last 50 years. For example, we know now that animals use tools...
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