Scientists roll back evolution by turning a chick's beak into a 'dino-snout'
If you study evolution, it's kind of hard to do experiments that don't involve thousands of years and natural selection. But that's what researchers just did by making a chicken more like its ancient...
View ArticleIs tornado activity in the US being affected by climate change?
A new study suggests that a warming planet may be changing how tornadoes in the US occur and could be increasing their potential for causing damage, according to a new study in the journal Climate...
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Galapagos islands' Wolf volcano erupts — rare pink iguanas not in danger
On Monday, Wolf volcano on the Galapagos Islands erupted spewing fire, smoke and lava.Conolophus marthae, the Galapagos pink land iguana. Credit: Gabriele Gentile/University of RomeAuthorities say the...
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Deadly tornado flips cars, wreaks havoc in Mexico. Across border, Texas faces...
At least 13 people have been killed by a category 4 tornado that swept through Ciudad Acuña Monday.Images from the town, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas, showed cars flipped, buses smashed...
View ArticleDespite the extreme heat wave hitting India 'you have to keep going'
India has been suffering from extreme weather lately.A scorching heatwave is the problem there.A least 800 deaths across the country have been blamed on the heat and authorities have advised people to...
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Biggest solar flare of the year showers the Earth
Space weather is a complicated idea with a real impact on life on Earth. Basically, it's the stuff that is spewed out by the sun and other stars — electromagnetic energy and solar material — that...
View ArticleNew study links 'unprecedented' dolphin deaths with 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill
It appears that no amount of cleaning can fix the long-term effects of oil contamination in fragile coastal habitats.While officials in Santa Barbara, California, continue efforts to clean up from this...
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A professor figured out a way to use art to clean up polluted streams
To the unacquainted eye, southeastern Ohio is a picturesque vision of rolling, grass-covered hills dotted with trees. But for Guy Riefler, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University...
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From the White House to Minnesota gardens, an effort to make more room for...
Beekeeper Jon Otis runs Lake Superior Honey. He has hives here and there around the city of Duluth. He says the idea is that the honey each hive produces has the flavor of the neighborhood it’s in,...
View ArticleThe 'Great Energy Transition' is already underway, according to a new book
In a new book, noted environmentalist Lester Brown says the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is not only unstoppable, but will happen much faster than anyone expected.“I think we're...
View ArticleAs history shows, future wars will look very different
From spears and horses to drones and submarines, war has been intertwined with human existence. Our evolution, according to some leading biologists, has been shaped and molded by conflict and war.But...
View ArticleOne of nation's biggest polluters sucks water from drier and drier river system
In the desert of western Arizona rises a symbol of the America's illogical water policy.Gigantic and visible for hundreds of miles, it looks like some industrial church or mysterious weapons system, or...
View ArticleA herd of endangered antelope in Central Asia has suddenly died en masse
Two weeks ago, the saiga, an endangered type of antelope that roams Central Asia, suddenly began dying en masse. More than 60,000 animals in Kazakhstan mysteriously fell ill and died within hours of...
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With climate change, species are increasingly interbreeding to survive
Native wolves had been eradicated and the forests of the eastern United States long cut down when residents of western New York first began to notice the arrival of coyotes in the 1940s. The coyotes of...
View ArticleOur cars are becoming another device on the Internet of Things
In case you haven't noticed, cars are gradually transforming into computers on wheels.All the things we love about our devices have become more and more integrated into our driving experience: music...
View ArticleInternet cafes in Nigeria are quickly becoming a thing of the past
Back in the early 2000s, the only way Yinka Adegoke could send an email to family and friends back in the UK and US, was to stop by an Internet cafe."[Internet cafes] were an important place to go to...
View ArticleShould we be alarmed that mock weapons and explosives got past airport...
Think your airport is secure from terrorists? Think again. It’s apparently not difficult to smuggle weapons past TSA airport screeners.According to a new Transportation Security Administration...
View ArticleWhy Australia has a walking fish problem
Here's a story about a fish. And this fish isn't staying where it's supposed to be.We'll get to that in a moment. First, the basics.The climbing perch is a freshwater fish native to Papua New Guinea,...
View ArticleAppalachia is being hammered by the fall of coal
Central Appalachia is in mourning.The region isn’t grieving the death of a child, or of a particularly famous inhabitant. They’re working through the loss of the coal industry, a once rich and vital...
View ArticleA community bio-tech lab offers a crash course in designing life — open to...
Dr. Ellen Jorgensen believes everyone should have access to biotechnology.“Scientists in general are awful at communicating their work to the general public,” says Jorgensen, the director of Genspace....
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