Why This Topic Is Important Clean, safe drinking water is essential to child health and learning. Access to quality drinking water in the home, school, and child...
Fiber-optic breakthrough could lead to real AI
What do Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Steven Hawking all have in common? Judging by their outspoken remarks on the looming dangers of runaway AI, we might...
What is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
A swirling sea of plastic bags, bottles and debris is growing in the North Pacific, and now another one has been found in the Atlantic. But how...
Industry Body Calls for Gene-Editing Moratorium
Gene-editing companies say research on altering the DNA of human reproductive cells is dangerous and unethical. Officials of a biotechnology industry group have called for a voluntary...
22 interesting facts about drinking water
A lot of water is wasted because so many people give little thought to where water comes from and where it goes after they use it. Yet...
NASA Scientist Warns “California Has One Year Of Water Left”
Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California's winter was as well....