That's not a pebble. It's a fossilized dinosaur brain.
Back in 2004 Jamie Hiscocks was taking a walk on the beach in the south of England when he spotted a small brown pebble — just a few inches across. He could easily have kept walking or moved on to hunt...
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Protesters say mass arrests won't stop their fight against a North Dakota oil...
Protesters continued to clash with police in Cannon Ball, North Dakota on Friday, a day after 141 people were arrested and an encampment intended to block construction of an oil pipeline was razed in...
View ArticleReservoirs are sources of drinking water, hydropower and ... tons of...
Reservoirs provide flood control, irrigation, drinking water and recreation for millions of people worldwide. And when positioned behind hydroelectric dams, reservoirs are also major sources of...
View ArticleResearchers aim to make digital assistants like Siri less annoying
Apple has Siri, Microsoft has Cortana, Amazon has Alexa — and the list goes on. Today’s tech titans all offer “digital assistants” integrated into their devices, to help our lives run just a little...
View ArticleThe ambitious Clinton climate plan nobody is talking about
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a detailed 10-year energy, environment and climate plan. But you likely know nothing about it.During the presidential debates, moderators asked the candidates...
View ArticleScientists develop a hornless Holstein using ‘gene editing.’ Are you ready to...
If you’ve visited a dairy farm, you may have noticed that the cows — usually Holsteins — are hornless. They weren’t born that way: Both female and male Holsteins naturally grow horns. But on farms, the...
View ArticleA conservation group has teamed up with Massachusetts students to give...
Blanding’s turtles have about a 1 in 80 chance of living to be adults. So, a nonprofit in Boston is working to shift those odds and give baby Blanding’s turtles a better start. They're being helped by...
View ArticleStanding Rock activists: Don't call us protesters. We're water protectors.
More than 140 people were arrested on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, last week. It’s just the latest in a series of standoffs between the people camped near the...
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China to Trump: Wise men don’t sneer at climate change
China and the United States don’t need to go to war to destroy civilization as we know it.They just need to keep pumping the skies full of carbon dioxide for 75 more years, slowly turning much of the...
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As conflict increases in Afghanistan, more Afghans are being displaced
The United Nations warned again of a deteriorating crisis of displacement in Afghanistan as the conflict escalates, imploring the government and international donors to step up support especially for a...
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It's not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their...
It started last April with two people from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota praying in a teepee for others to come and help fight an oil pipeline they believed would threaten their...
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From the Manhattan Project to the Iran deal: A nuclear timeline
It's been a very Russian election in the US. Between talk about Russian hackers and GOP nominee Donald Trump's supposed bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin it's easy to forget that we're...
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The historic Paris climate change agreement just became international law
A worldwide pact to battle global warming entered into force Friday, just a week before nations reassemble to discuss how to make good on their promises to cut planet-warming greenhouse gases.Dubbed...
View ArticleThese black women were the mathematicians behind American spaceflight
Before NASA, there was NACA — the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, headquartered at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. And before there were computers to analyze the NACA...
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A writer moves to Montana to savor the beauty, to hike, to ski — and to watch...
Last summer, I stood with my wife on the edge of a sheer cliff in Glacier National Park. We stared down toward the massive Grinnell Glacier. In that moment, we decided to move to Montana.I can work...
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Choking smog in Delhi has led to 'health emergency' warnings
Authorities in Delhi closed schools, halted construction work and shut down a major power plant on Monday after days of choking smog led to warnings of a "health emergency" in the world's most-polluted...
View ArticleWildlife trafficking is on the ballot in Oregon
When Oregon voters go to the polls this week, they will decide whether to ban the buying and selling of illegal animal products, such as ivory and jaguar skins.The 12 species covered by ballot Measure...
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The United Arab Emirates is jumping on the Mars exploration bandwagon
The US and Russia have for years dominated the race to explore Mars. Since the 1960s, they have worked on dozens of missions.Now, for the first time, an Arab country — the United Arab Emirates — says...
View ArticleA few thoughts on how to do my job in the future, inspired by 2016
Maybe American exceptionalism isn’t dead.The world is watching the vote on Tuesday for a reason. The United States sets trends — whether they’re positive or not, whether the rest of the world likes...
View ArticleMy love/hate relationship with Barack Obama
I campaigned for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. I will never forget the tears that streamed down my face when, after a long day of "Get Out The Vote" door-knocking in Chicagoland’s American Muslim...
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