Why Bringing Back DDT to Fight Zika Mosquitoes Could Backfire
Less than a century since DDT was first sprayed, the spread of the Zika virus through mosquitoes has left some wondering whether regulators were too …
Elon Musks Tries to Create One Green Company to Save The World
Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla has offered to buy SolarCity in a deal valued at $2.5 to $3 billion, a bid that would position …
Global Air Pollution Is on the Rise Despite Decades of Efforts to Stop It
More than 80% of the world’s urban population lives in areas where air quality does not meet standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO), …
See the Frozen Canyons of Pluto’s North Pole
An image of Pluto released by NASA on Thursday reveals long frozen canyons with winding valleys close to the dwarf planet’s north pole. The widest …
See What Triggered the Milky Way’s Most Recent Supernova
A collision between two white dwarfs—the remnants of a small star—likely caused the most recent supernova in our galaxy, according to new research. The study, …
Watch Live: SpaceX Launches a ‘Very Hot and Fast’ Rocket
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will yet again try to make aerospace history by launching and then trying to land its drone rocket in the Atlantic Ocean. …
Here’s How Flowers Move—and Why
It may not surprise you that sunflowers have something of a thing for the sun. OK, that’s true of all plants, which is why they …
Stephen Hawking: Disaster on Earth is Becoming a ‘Near Certainty’
Physicist Stephen Hawking says the chances of disaster befalling planet Earth could rise to a “near certainty” in thousands of years, but warns that we …
Reagan Administration Officials at First Dismissed the Ozone Hole. Here’s What Changed
The May 1985 paper, published in top scientific journal Nature, rocked the world: British scientists, backed up by harrowing images, revealed that, over Antarctica, a …
How Fossil Fuels (Really) May Have Killed the Dinosaurs
Think the modern world has a problem with what fossil fuels are doing to the atmosphere? Turns out that the fossils themselves—the dinosaurs—had it even …