Sustainability
How Will American Catholics Respond to Pope's Message on Climate Change?
Pope Francis’s ideas on environmental stewardship may face resistance
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The Sciences
Confirmation Bias
A comic about confirmation bias.
The Sciences
Biosciences Get Defense Secretary's Attention
At the recent DARPA Wait What? conference, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said lifesaving technologies are a priority for his department
Health
Scientists Apply for License to Edit Genes in Human Embryos
A team from the Francis Crick Institute wants a permit to use so-called CRISPR/Cas 9 technology in basic research
Health
Pope Francis, Jimmy Carter and the "Greatest Threat to Peace"
Pope Francis and Jimmy Carter view the arms industry and U.S. hawkishness as major impediments to peace.
Volkswagen Uses Software to Fool EPA Pollution Tests
EPA charges that the German automaker installed emissions-control software designed to work only during tests
The Sciences
Teenage Clockmaker Upholds Long Scientific Tradition
As Daniel Boorstin, former director of the Smithsonian National Museum of History, once put it, clockmakers were the "pioneer scientific instrument makers" ...
Sustainability
Republican Candidates Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real
Unlike past elections, global warming may emerge as a significant policy issue in the 2016 campaign
Republican Candidates Questioned on Climate Change
What do the would-be presidents think about global warming?
Sustainability
Global Warming Casts Shadow over Oil Leasing on Public Lands
To fight climate change such leases might have to cease
Health
Vexed Issue of Gene Editing to Be Tackled by International Experts
Scientists from the U.S., China and Britain will come together to discuss the future of the technique, which holds great promise for treating diseases
Sustainability
The World Really Could Go Nuclear
Nothing but fear and capital stand in the way of a nuclear-powered future
The Sciences
Lessons from Killer Snails: A Q&A with Biologist Mande Holford
Editors note: This is part of a series of interviews produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum with members of its program on Young Scientists, who will be appearing at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions This Q&A features Mande Holford is Assistant Professor, Chemical Biology at City University of New York’s Hunter College...
Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought
Antarctica will suffer a major meltdown if we continue to burn fossil fuels at the present pace
Sustainability
Rising Sea Levels May Limit New Orleans Adaptation Efforts
New Orleans sees that even modern engineering cannot eliminate flooding risk
Space
NASA Struggles over Deep-Space Plutonium Power
Sluggish production of nuclear fuel could make solar power the preferred choice for the agency’s outer-planets missions
The Sciences
From Waste to Wealth: A Q&A with Agricultural Engineer Noble Banadda
Editors note: This is part of a series of interviews produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum with members of its program on Young Scientists, who will be appearing at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China from September 9-to-11. The Q&A below features Noble Banadda, Professor of Bio-systems Engineering at Makrere University in Uganda...
Sustainability
Humans' Predation Unsustainably Takes Healthy Adult Prey
Whereas most predators kill the young or infirm, humans claim a disproportionate number of mature healthy adults of reproductive age
Sustainability
New Hampshire Republicans Coax Candidates to Talk Climate Change
Conservatives are asking Republican presidential contenders about their plans to address global warming
Tech
Wikipedia Editors Woo Scientists to Improve Content Quality
The online encyclopedia hosted a conference to enlist the help of scientists and reduce disputes about the quality of entries
