Putin, before election, unveils new nuclear weapons to counter West
President Vladimir Putin unveiled new, powerful nuclear weapons on Thursday in an address just weeks before an election he is expected to win.Among the new weapons that Putin said were either in...
View ArticleExperts say 'extinction is around the corner' for right whales
Right whales are in serious trouble. Over the past year, there have been a record 18 deaths and zero births, and the population of North Atlantic right whales has dwindled. Now there are only 430 left...
View ArticleNot-so-fresh ink: Tattoos discovered on Egyptian mummies
Researchers have discovered the oldest figurative tattoos in the world on the upper arms of two ancient Egyptian mummies, the British Museum said on Thursday.A male mummy was found to have tattoos...
View ArticleDubai tests self-driving pods in drive to become 'smart city'
Dubai has begun testing autonomous pods in a trial run the Gulf's trade and tourism hub hopes will help its transformation into one of the smartest cities in the world.Officials from Dubai's Roads and...
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Europe's cold blast, Arctic's heat wave are 'two sides of the same coin'
Daffodils in the park, covered in snow. A snowball fight on the roof of BBC headquarters. Such were the scenes this week in London — echoed across much of Europe — as a blast of cold and snow dubbed...
View ArticleGiant chocolate industry depends on tiny insects for survival
Chocolate is a global industry worth about $100 billion a year. What gets overshadowed in all those sweet treats and big profits are the bugs responsible for it all.Yes, bugs.Chocolate comes from cacao...
View ArticleFor poor and minority children, excessive air pollution creates a toxic...
School is supposed to be a safe environment, but a recent study in the journal Environmental Research has found that at many public schools, children are being exposed to harmful levels of air...
View ArticleThe ozone hole over the Antarctic is beginning to fill up. Here's the bad news.
Before the term global warming entered our collective lexicon, environmentalists and scientists had expressed major concern over the depletion of the ozone, the layer of gas that protects the Earth...
View ArticleA new book advises parents about how to cope with a world awash in toxic...
In their new book, "Children & Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know," Philip Landrigan and Mary Landrigan bring together research on the risks chemicals pose to children in the form of...
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The Plastic Banks works to turn plastic trash into cash and other necessities...
There are roughly 5 trillion pieces of plastic sloshing around in the world’s oceans and the vast majority come from the world’s poorest countries, where proper disposal or recycling is largely...
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Finland's reindeer-herding Sámi women fight climate change
Inka Saara Arttijeff and her family gather in the cozy kitchen of their red, wooden house, as a pot of soup simmers on the stove. They live at the edge of a frozen lake in the storybook village of...
View ArticleIt's raining viruses, but don't panic
Billions of viruses get swept up into the atmosphere by dust clouds and water droplets, travel for thousands of miles and then eventually settle back to Earth, according to new research.This may sound...
View ArticleJapan erects barriers to the sea, leaving some uneasy
When a massive earthquake struck in 2011, Japanese oyster fisherman Atsushi Fujita was working as usual by the sea. Soon after, a huge black wave slammed into his city and killed nearly 2,000...
View ArticleNew study sheds light on the debate over the origins of flamingos in Florida
Florida. Flamingos. The alliteration rolls right off the tongue. Yet for years there has been a question raised about whether the birds are actually native to the Sunshine State — a situation that...
View ArticleHackers find the processing power they need for mining for cryptocurrencies...
The next time you're visiting a website and your computer’s fan starts going crazy out of nowhere, there could be nefarious activity behind it.Without you knowing it, a hacker may have turned your...
View ArticlePhysicist Stephen Hawking, who unlocked the secrets of space and time, has...
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, died peacefully at his home in the British university city of Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday. He was 76"We are deeply saddened that our beloved father...
View ArticleHow Jordan's particle accelerator is bringing together Middle East enemies
Less than hour outside Amman is the Middle East’s only major international scientific research center. The Jordanian town of Al-Salt is home to SESAME, which stands for Synchrotron-light for...
View ArticleThe US blames Russia for cyber attacks on the energy grid
Beginning in March 2016, or possibly earlier, Russian government hackers sought to penetrate multiple US critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water,...
View ArticleKenya evidence shows humans traded and innovated earlier than expected
On a grassy African landscape, some of the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens, engaged in surprisingly sophisticated behaviors — using color pigments, creating advanced tools and trading for...
View ArticleJobs in solar energy fall for the first time in seven years
The US solar market experienced a downturn in 2017 for the first time in seven years.Though the fall in jobs coincided with Donald Trump's first year as president, the election had no effect on the...
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