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Along the Pacific Coast, a seabird is starving — and we don't know why
Unless you’re a sailor or you work on an oil rig, you’ve probably never seen a common murre. These black and white birds live nearly their entire lives at sea, but this summer starving murres washed up...
View ArticleDid the Kepler telescope just find the first signs of alien life?
In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers described a star over 1,400 light years away that dims and glows in a strange flickering pattern. A number of...
View ArticleDid Dark Matter Doom the Dinosaurs?
Scientists generally concur that the dinosaurs were killed off by a giant asteroid that struck planet earth tens of millions of years ago. But what sent the asteroid hurtling towards earth? Harvard...
View ArticleVolkswagen’s deception will cause 59 premature deaths in the US
P.J. Goodwin has always loved Volkswagens, I mean really loved them. He flashes his lights and waves at other VW owners on the road.“I definitely felt a magnetism towards vintage VW’s. My first car was...
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'I'm fighting for the survival of my country in the battle against climate...
Climate change can sometimes feel like something in the future, a century or more away. But one place where it’s already hitting home is the Marshall Islands, a small Pacific atoll near the equator.Its...
View ArticleClimate change takes center stage among the Democratic presidential candidates
The recent Democratic presidential candidate debate, hosted by CNN in Las Vegas, set a precedent for the debate season and perhaps for the longer campaign, as well: Every one of the candidates directly...
View ArticleThe ‘Galapagos of the Arab World’ was just lashed with a cyclone. Now it's...
A powerful tropical cyclone hit the small Yemeni island of Socotra on Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 200, according to a local mayor.Cyclone Chapala intensified over the weekend to...
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When Harry met Rosa, a rhino love story
An 1,800-pound rhinoceros named Harry flew to Indonesia this weekend. Really.Veterinarians with the Cincinnati Zoo’s Center for Conservation and Research for Endangered Wildlife escorted a Sumatran...
View ArticleThe future of the Internet as a place for an open exchange of ideas is very...
We’d all like to think that a simple browser and a few keystrokes can give us access to the unlimited knowledge base of the Internet. But there are a growing number of toll roads on the information...
View ArticleHow science may help us all be happier in our cities
Colin Ellard is a cognitive neuroscientist, and the author of “Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life.” His work involves studying how city grids, storefronts, and streetscapes...
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Seven photos of spooky characters that live in the depths of the ocean
In 1979, the cult classic sci-fi thriller Alien unleashed one of the most blood-chilling monsters in movie history. When it lurches from a dark spaceship vent (or a human chest), we feel Ripley’s...
View ArticleBritain's oldest tree may be undergoing a sex change
The Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest living organisms in Europe, may be undergoing a sex change.The tree in Scotland — which by some estimates has been male for nearly 5,000 years — was recently found...
View ArticleExxon helped pioneer climate science — then disavowed its own research. Was...
The New York attorney general is investigating whether Exxon Mobil lied to the public — and investors — about the risks to the environment and its business posed by climate change, according to a...
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Computer models that help oceanside cities plan for their future also hold...
It’s a mild and sunny summer day on the tidal salt marshes at Barn Island Wildlife Management Area, which sits across Little Narragansett bay from Stonington, Connecticut. Walking through a wide, dry...
View ArticleWith Keystone down and Exxon under investigation, it's been a tough week for...
If you run into an oil man in a bar, you might want to buy him a drink. It’s been a bit of a tough week for the business. It was the end of the line for the Keystone XL pipeline, and possibly the...
View ArticleHow a new prime minister will reshape Canada's environmental policies
The election of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau as Canada's prime minister is raising questions about how the country's extraction-based economy can be reconciled with Trudeau’s conservation...
View ArticleThe US has made some big flops in the world of tech. Here's why.
To be fair, the US isn’t entirely a failure when it comes to IT. But it's record? Really not that good, either.Bob Charette, a contributing editor with IEEE Spectrum has been analyzing the past 10...
View ArticleWhat killed the dinosaurs? Dark matter may have played a role.
Scientists generally concur that the dinosaurs were killed off by a giant asteroid that struck Earth tens of millions of years ago. But what sent the asteroid hurtling this way?Harvard University...
View ArticleUS governments have made some big flops in the world of tech. Here's why.
To be fair, the US isn’t entirely a failure when it comes to IT. But it's record? Really not that good, either.Bob Charette, a contributing editor with IEEE Spectrum has been analyzing the past 10...
View ArticleDid the Kepler telescope just find the first signs of alien life?
A recent paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society describes a star more than 1,400 light years away that dims and glows in a strange flickering pattern. A number of theories...
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