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EPA Seeks to Ease Rules on Muddy Runoff From Logging Roads
The Obama administration wants to change the rules applying to stormwater running off logging roads, blunting a landmark court...
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Can Fungi Clean Up a Superfund Site?
Between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens is a broad creek tainted by 150 years of...
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Massive Impacts May Have Warmed Ancient Mars
Cosmic impacts that once bombed Mars might have sent temperatures skyrocketing on the Red Planet in ancient times, enough...
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The Faster-Than-Light Telegraph That Wasn’t
In 1981 physicist Nick Herbert leveraged strange features of quantum mechanics to design a superluminal communication system. The quest...
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Ghostly Gamma-Ray Beams Blast From Milky Way’s Center
As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive...
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Fracking Boom Spurs Environmental Audit
As hydraulic fracturing unlocks new gas reserves, researchers struggle to understand its health implications.
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Huge Ancient Civilization’s Collapse Attributed to Climate Change
The mysterious fall of the largest of the world’s earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is...
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Why Aliens Won’t Attack Earth
Despite what the movies tell us, any aliens that visit Earth probably won’t want to enslave or vaporize us,...
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Hereditary Inequality Among Stone Age Farmers
A study of more than 300 Neolithic skeletons suggests evidence of “hereditary inequality” among farmers 7,000 years ago, researchers...
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Study Traces Origins of Monogamous Coupling
From an evolutionary standpoint, the key players in the mating game were males with poor fighting skills and females...