Even as cyberwar rages, we can't really decide what cyberwar is
Cyberwarfare.You've heard it in reference to recent exchanges with China. And don't forget the 2012 cyberattack on the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Aramco. A cyberwarfare virus called Shamoon...
View ArticleTunisians are taking 'trash selfies' in an effort to get cleaner streets
Think back to the last selfie you took.Whatever you were showing off — a new haircut, maybe, or a palm tree you were sitting under. Either way, that selfie probably didn't include bags full of garbage...
View ArticleIs China the real target for Obama's sweeping new carbon rules?
Today, President Obama proposed a plan that some quickly labeled as "historic," that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the US. But many say his real target is outside the...
View ArticleIn the Philippines, underwater gold mining comes with small payoffs and big...
Undersea mining is one of the last frontiers for extracting precious metals from the Earth. Mining companies see the ocean floor as a potentially vast new source of riches.But in the Philippines,...
View ArticleObama's climate plan targets coal, but it will face challenges
No matter how many climate change stories and interviews you hear, it always boils down to a simple question: What are you going to do about the problem of a warming atmosphere? What are we as...
View ArticleThis Italian farmer is fighting for the right to grow genetically modified...
Neatly ploughed, furrowed fields sit at the base of the Italian Alps. This fertile plain, called Magredi, is part nature reserve, part farm country and, lately, part pain-in-the-neck for the Italian...
View ArticleListening to the 'music' of brain seizures could help epilepsy patients
It’s one of those ideas that seems so obvious once you hear it: Why not study brain activity by listening to it, rather than just looking at it?As so often happens in science, two researchers from...
View ArticleA new study shows that koalas cuddle trees to keep cool
Koalas always look adorable with their little chubby grey bodies clinging to trees.But did you ever wonder why koalas hug trees? Some scientists in Australia did.A team of researchers from the...
View ArticleLEGO's new line of female scientists features an astronomer and a paleontologist
LEGO is planning to launch a new line of products featuring female scientists.The series includes an astronomer with a telescope, a palaeontologist with a dinosaur skeleton and a chemist in a lab.The...
View ArticleChina announces its own plan to rein in carbon emissions
China and the US jockey for global influence in trade, economic development and technology innovation. But the US is happy to come in second in at least one metric: pollution.When it comes to global...
View ArticleGreenpeace decides to create a fracking well — under David Cameron's home
Greenpeace has pulled off some clever stunts over the years. And whatever you think of its politics, the one they staged this week at the country home of British prime minister David Cameron was...
View ArticleA new report finds nations are woefully unprepared for Arctic oil spills
Back in January, Royal Dutch Shell announced it was abandoning plans to drill for oil in the Arctic waters near Alaska. It was the second time in two years the company was forced to postpone plans to...
View ArticleScientists are starting to worry about 'conscious' machines, as in the movie...
Johnny Depp plays Will Caster, a brilliant artificial intelligence (AI) researcher who is poisoned by anti-technology terrorists. He's dying, so his wife Evelyn Caster, played by Rebecca Hall, concocts...
View ArticleDeep seabed mining is a new — and lightly regulated — ecological experiment
“We know less about the deep sea than we know about the surface of the moon,” says environtmentalist Richard Page. “So this is a big experiment.”The “experiment” Page refers to is a project launched by...
View ArticleThis Iraq war veteran goes back to Iraq on a different mission: to save the...
Carina Roselli was a US Army helicopter pilot in 2009. As she flew over the land in Iraq on her various missions, one thing caught her attention."The flat, desert landscape was striking," she recalls....
View ArticleRain barrels, wrigglers and rising temperatures bring concern about malaria...
Mosquitoes aren’t top of the list for urban hazards in the UK, but that’s starting to change, and that’s got some folks here a little on edge.Among them count Amanda Callaghan, a zoologist at the...
View ArticleThere's a new weapon in the battle against wildfires — goats
There is a new and effective weapon in the battle to reduce and contain wildfires in Southern California — teams of ‘elite’ goats.PRI’s Science Friday video producer Luke Groskin got up an up close...
View ArticleBehind Boko Haram's terrorism in Nigeria is radical Islam — and environmental...
Two months after more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Nigeria, the hunt for the girls has gone largely nowhere and the group Boko Haram continues to terrorize the...
View ArticleArtist Maya Lin's Sound Ring immerses listeners in a world of endangered species
Artist Maya Lin wants the world to know about endangered species. And she's created Sound Ring to do just that.Lin says the Sound Ring is really a sound sculpture. "There's an array of eight hidden...
View ArticleToday's Arctic explorers follow in the footsteps of history
On a modern-day expedition to the Hudson Bay, Larry Millman overheard an unusual story about the first white man to live among that region’s native Cree. The story had been passed down among the Cree...
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