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Photos from space reveal a moonscape wrought by geologic forces and celestial...
From a terrestrial vantage point, the moon seems like a pretty calm and predictable neighbor, following through on its phases and reliably pulling on our tides. But if you start rummaging around in the...
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A new generation of video games play on your emotions — like empathy,...
Confession: I am not a gamer.The sum total of my gaming experience is an intense, elementary school obsession with Oregon Trail. You won’t find Candy Crush on my phone, and my thumbs fumble around the...
View ArticleAre the whines of mosquitoes the original inspiration for human rhythms?
For many of us, the sound of an insect nearby is often followed by another sound: the slap of the hand or swish of the swatter. But musician David Rothenberg claims that these hums and whines are an...
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Why Vermont’s GMO labels will be showing up in your grocery stores
In the next few months, you may see a new phrase on the labels of some foods at the grocery story: “produced with genetic engineering.”These disclaimers have been mandated in dozens of countries for...
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These chefs are giving French cuisine a climate change makeover
French gastronomy may evoke thoughts of butter, cream, duck fat, hollandaise and fancy pastries — in other words, rich, fatty food that will fill your belly.But French cuisine has had a makeover over...
View ArticleMexico City residents are forced to cope with bad air
Mexico City is in the grips of a pollution crisis.Authorities have issued the first smog alerts for the city in more than a decade and recently implemented restrictions on when cars can be on the road....
View ArticleThis Thai fish walks like a mammal. That may reveal secrets about our evolution.
It’s eyeless, translucent pink, and dwells in dark caves along the Thai-Myanmar border. And it might just help humanity understand how our aquatic ancestors emerged from the sea.This species —...
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At this Paris restaurant, 'freegans' fight waste by cooking up food diverted...
Head to the far side of the 19th arrondissement in Paris, on metro line 7. Walk across a large, grimy square and look for a tall set of metal doors under the highway overpass. When you see the bright...
View ArticleThe melting Arctic is to blame for snow and precipitation in other parts of...
New research suggests that the snowiest winters on the East Coast are fueled by moisture being pumped out of the Arctic Ocean.The study, which drew on more than 40 years of water samples taken at the...
View ArticleAn investigation has found lead in 2,000 US water systems
As many as 2,000 drinking water systems in the US are contaminated with lead to a level that could present risks to consumers, an investigation by USA Today has found.In addition, seven million...
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Network news coverage of climate change dropped, on average, in 2015
2015 was a big year for climate news — but you wouldn’t know it from watching network TV news in the US.Despite such major stories as President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the Paris climate...
View ArticleHow many genes are necessary to create a living cell? These scientists say 473.
Biologist Craig Venter and his team just announced that, after years of failure, they have finally figured out the minimum number of genes necessary to create a living, stripped-down version of a cell....
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There's a new tree of life, and humans are just a tiny twig on it
The tree of life is a key way scientists classify and think about the diversity of life on Earth, a kind of visual taxonomy for how organisms are related to each other and evolve over time, branching...
View ArticleIn the US, the cost of illnesses triggered by air pollution is falling
In the endless tug-of-war between industry and regulators over air pollution, industry issues repeated warnings about the economic costs of regulation, but rarely mentions costs of pollution to...
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The 'Damsels of Design,' women who changed automotive history
For all of the horror that emerged from the WWII, there were some bright spots: With the men out fighting, women were brought into the workplace.In the mid 1950s, a visionary executive believed women...
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What's the story behind the famous London Fog?
Cities have unique signatures — and for London, it's fog. A century ago, acrid, corrosive, soot-laden smog killed thousands and shrouded the city in darkness. Yet some Londoners felt affection for the...
View ArticleInky the octopus's great escape isn't really all that surprising — or unusual
A well-loved octopus named Inky escaped recently from the National Aquarium in New Zealand.Aquarium manager Rob Yarrall says the lid to the octopus’ tank was left slightly ajar after maintenance one...
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What a young scientist found when he started researching a famous 'boiling...
Andrés Ruzo first heard about the Boiling River from his Peruvian grandfather, who shared a legend with him when he was a kid about the Lost City of Gold in Peru. “One of the details of the story was a...
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South Florida Republicans are fed up with their party leaders on climate change
For Jim Cason, the Republican mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, climate change is very real.On a recent day he was looking at a newly drawn elevation map of his city of 50,000 on Florida’s Atlantic coast...
View ArticleWhen technology goes wrong in your doctor's office, it can have serious...
Thirty-nine shrink-wrapped pills sat in front of Brooke Levitt, a nurse at a respected hospital in San Francisco. It was an antibiotic called Septra. And the prescription said to administer all 39 of...
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