Seeing 'Frankenstein' through the lens of climate change
Usually we celebrate the year a work of art came out, so a bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s novel "Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus" should take place in 2018. But this summer, some literary...
View ArticleDiamond labs say theirs are forever too — even if they were made yesterday
Silicon Valley is a playground of sci-fi wonders: Driverless cars. Virtual reality arcades. The robots that will soon replace your dog.I’m here to check out the latest: A diamond mine the size of a...
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Deadly forest fires burn through Portuguese vacation island, killing three
Three people have died in raging forest fires on Portugal's holiday island of Madeira where flames damaged homes and a hotel and forced around 1,000 people to flee.Portugal urged its European partners...
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The US gets its first offshore wind farm, with a lot of help from Europe
America’s very first offshore wind turbine was erected last week off the coast of Rhode Island.Construction on the five-turbine, $250 million project will finish this summer. When the wind farm starts...
View ArticleTips for aspiring scientists from one woman who is — literally — figuring out...
Put simply, Lisa Randall’s job is to figure out how the universe works, and what it’s made of.Her contributions to theoretical particle physics include two models of space-time that bear her name. The...
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The Maker Movement that was born in the USA has taken on Chinese characteristics
Are you a maker? Probably so, even if you haven’t heard the term.“We were born makers, and if we choose to develop our interest in making, anybody can do this,” says Dale Dougherty, who founded the...
View ArticleBangladeshis plunge into a pond to save an elephant that wandered 621 miles...
An elephant thought to have travelled 1,000 kilometres from India into Bangladesh after becoming separated from its herd by floods was stopped in its tracks Thursday in a dramatic rescue that nearly...
View ArticleEntombed Cold War-era US military base may be exposed by climate change
By 2090, layer after layer of the Greenland Ice Sheet will vanish, exposing a once-top secret US military base established during the Cold War. That's according to a new study that projects 75 years...
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What a 1.7-million-year-old hominid fossil can teach us about cancer
In late July, an international team of researchers announced that they had identified evidence of cancer in the fossilized remains of a biological relative of human beings who lived about 1.7 million...
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There's a whole lot more color in that bucket of sand than you think
Retired biologist Gary Greenberg doesn’t receive regular letters or postcards in the mail from his fans or friends.“I have thousands of bottles of sand that people have sent me,” Greenberg says.This...
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What can killer whales teach us about menopause?
Menopause is a puzzle for biologists. Why would the female of a species cease to reproduce halfway through her life, when natural selection favors characteristics that help an individual's genes...
View ArticleMissing for a century, manatees resettle in Caribbean
Two Singapore-born manatees, flown halfway around the world this week under a program to restore Caribbean populations of the endangered sea cows, are settling in well in Guadeloupe.The giant,...
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Nazi 'gold train' spurs another treasure hunt in Poland
Treasure hunters on Friday launched their search for a lost Nazi gold train allegedly loaded with loot and buried in southwestern Poland, despite there being no scientific evidence it exists."The train...
View ArticleWhat does Brexit mean for the Paris climate agreement?
The UK’s vote to leave the European Union has raised questions about how Europe will meet its commitments to mitigate the effects of climate change under the Paris climate agreement.The EU negotiated...
View ArticleWhy New Zealand is going all out to kill its rats, possums
New Zealand is well-known for harboring hundreds of beautiful native bird species, many of which have called the archipelago home for millennia. Mammalian species, on the other hand, are not native to...
View ArticleWhy snails are one of the world's deadliest creatures
As far as the world’s deadliest creatures go, large predators like sharks and lions tend to get all the credit. But in fact, if we were to point to the animal kingdom’s most frequent killer, it’d...
View ArticleExperts suggest Russia is behind a wider-than-believed hack of Democratic...
Experts believe that Russian hackers carried out last month's email hack of the Democratic National Committee, but now, it appears that hackers reached much further into the party than what was...
View ArticleBoston is preparing a plan to cope with climate change
As a port city with low-lying areas, Boston, Massachusetts is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise that is expected to occur due to global warming. So, the city's mayor, Marty Walsh, is taking...
View ArticleCompressor stations are a new flashpoint in the debate over natural gas...
Barry Booth says his dogs gave him an early sign something was wrong with the air at his Carroll County home, in eastern Ohio.“The dogs stick their nose to the door, turn around and come right back in...
View ArticleWhere is modern cloning, 20 years after Dolly?
Twenty years ago, Dolly the sheep was born, becoming the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Dolly lived for 6.5 years and developed osteoarthritis late in life. Researchers analyzed her...
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