Bye Bye Fido, Hello Robo
Is a cat or dog too much responsibility for you? Don’t worry — AI robots are replacing them.
Want to Know What Foods Are Healthy for You? Just Ask Your Poop
Breakthrough analytical methods are proving how your microbiome — all the bacteria in your body — can hold the key to health and happiness.
Fighting Algae With Algae — A Problem Solving Itself
It sounds odd, but algae is being harnessed to reduce instances of algal bloom growing in lakes and reservoirs.
Avoid Gaining Weight This Holiday — Do the Cooking
How to not pack on those pesky pie pounds? Get involved with the planning and organizing — that’s sure to slim you right down…
Music Therapy Can Rewire a Broken Brain
When the brain is damaged, patients can regain speech and movement with the aid of Neurologic Music Therapy.
Plants Are Being Engineered to Earn Their Keep
Researchers are working on transferring bioluminescence to trees and giving houseplants traits to warn owners of harm. What could possibly go wrong?
HIV — On the Rise in Eastern Europe and the Deep South
The head of the NIH claims an AIDS-free world is on the horizon. But administering drugs is the easy part — educating populations less so.
How Driverless Cars Could Make Us Better Drivers
Just in time for your journey home from the family jamboree — some sci-fi hope for less stressful journeys in the future.
Paralyzed Patients Walk in Nerve Stimulation Breakthrough
Years after traumatic spinal injury, three people have managed to defy the odds and walk again.
Tiny Robot Drug Delivery Service — Into Your Eyes
Squeamish readers should probably look away now, as this is a story about tiny robots burrowing into eyeballs.
Monsanto’s Roundup Harms Bees, Report Confirms
Roundup has recently been proven to annihilate bees — pollinators essential to food production. Add it to the list of practices that have been killing them for 70 years.
Mass. Gas Grid Blows Up, and Answers Are Elusive
A buildup of pressure is the accepted cause of horrific gas line explosions in three Boston suburbs last week, but officials remain uncertain of what created that danger in the first place.
Drowning in Plastic — A Solution?
Engineers have created a man-made coastline to catch the junk we’ve thrown into the Pacific.
Leave My Culture Alone — Breakthrough on Hearing Not Welcomed by All
Scientists have found a piece of the hearing jigsaw puzzle. But does the deaf community want to be “fixed”?
Second Hand Smoke Causing a Western Smog Age
Seattle has become dangerous this week — along with a lot of the western United States — as smoke particles block out the sun and block up lungs.
‘No Future’ Youth to Get Day in Court — Just Before Midterms
The US Supreme Court has upheld a group’s right to sue the federal government because climate change is robbing young Americans of their future — and the court date couldn’t be much trickier for the GOP.
What Will Happen If Abortion Legislation Is Turned Back to the States?
Some states’ laws are already cutting access to reproductive health care. What can the rest of the US expect if a conservative SCOTUS tips the balance on Roe v. Wade?
Hot Air and a Big Baby — Trump Can Expect Snarky Treatment in the UK
The US president is notoriously thin-skinned. He’s faced considerable protests across America — but it’s about to be turned up to “11” when he touches down in the UK tomorrow.
Noise Isn’t Just Annoying — It Can Kill
Scientists say noise pollution is bad for our health. Time to make that move to the quiet countryside?
Science Fact — Harnessing the Cool of Space to Save the Planet
Developing countries are improving their standard of living, and with that comes demand for cooler indoor environments. This ironically will lead to increased global warming. But a fascinating new technology, based on old world science, could help change that outcome.