Beijing has been enveloped in one of its most severe sandstorms in over a decade, which has combined with air...
From the outside, the narwhal’s unicorn-like tusk is a striking curiosity. On the inside, this long protruding tooth contains an...
The perils of machine learning—using computers to identify and analyze data patterns, such as in facial recognition software—have made headlines...
A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants...
Biofuels that power cars, jet airplanes, ships and big trucks come primarily from corn and other mass-produced farm crops. But...
In the struggle to slow the runaway freight train of humanity’s destructive impact on Earth, scientists are increasingly looking at...
Volcanic eruptions, not natural variability, were the cause of an apparent “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation,” a purported cycle of warming thought...
In the 1995 movie “Outbreak,” Dustin Hoffman’s character realizes, with appropriately dramatic horror, that an infectious virus is “airborne” because...
Reliance Industries has acquired a majority stake in transportation startup skyTran, which is a developer of transportation systems consisting of...
Image: Seabin In 2013, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew Turton set out with a goal to remove waste from the ocean....
No matter what your experience was of 2020, there’s no doubt that the past year has been incredibly challenging not...
With the ever-increasing worldwide mass production of plastic, the inefficiency of current plastic recycling strategies has raised several environmental, societal,...
