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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: Fighting A Mosquito-Borne Epidemic From Within

Genetically modified mosquitoes are now being deployed to fight their wild counterparts who are spreading the resurgent dengue fever.

By John Kuroski • Jul 29, 2015

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: Fighting A Mosquito-Borne Epidemic From Within

Genetically modified mosquitoes are now being deployed to fight their wild counterparts who are spreading the resurgent dengue fever.

By John Kuroski • July 29, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXI

Before Pluto: The Other Awe-Inspiring New Horizons Photos While you’ve definitely seen the new Pluto photos and you probably know that those photos are the fruit of the New Horizons’ nearly ten-year journey, you may not realize all that happened along the way. It zipped past our moon (within nine...

By John Kuroski • Jul 17, 2015

What We Love This Week, Volume CXXXI

Before Pluto: The Other Awe-Inspiring New Horizons Photos While you’ve definitely seen the new Pluto photos and you probably know that those photos are the fruit of the New Horizons’ nearly ten-year journey, you may not realize all that happened along the way. It zipped past our moon (within nine...

By John Kuroski • July 17, 2015

The Heroin Vaccine That Could Save ‘Quadrillions’ On Healthcare Costs

This heroin vaccine could save countless lives--and federal dollars. Learn more about it with us.

By All That's Interesting • Jul 15, 2015

The Heroin Vaccine That Could Save ‘Quadrillions’ On Healthcare Costs

This heroin vaccine could save countless lives--and federal dollars. Learn more about it with us.

By All That's Interesting • July 15, 2015

Your World This Week, Volume IV

Bombings Rock Iraq, Afghanistan A small, but terribly destructive, wave of bombings hit Iraq on Sunday, leaving 35 dead and 100 wounded. Deadliest among the attacks was a car bomb coupled with a suicide bomb that killed 19 in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad. However, smaller attacks killed several others...

By John Kuroski • Jul 13, 2015

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Your World This Week, Volume IV

Bombings Rock Iraq, Afghanistan A small, but terribly destructive, wave of bombings hit Iraq on Sunday, leaving 35 dead and 100 wounded. Deadliest among the attacks was a car bomb coupled with a suicide bomb that killed 19 in the Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad. However, smaller attacks killed several others...

By John Kuroski • July 13, 2015

Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

By Richard Stockton • Jul 9, 2015

Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a proponent of technology's capacity for good, but he helped put lead in the air and annihilate Earth's ozone layer.

By Richard Stockton • July 9, 2015

WTF? 20 X-Rays Of Things That Aren’t Supposed To Be In Humans

A spatula can go there?! The weirdest x-rays are often the most gruesome ones. Squeamish friends, you've been warned.

By Erin Kelly • Jul 9, 2015

WTF? 20 X-Rays Of Things That Aren’t Supposed To Be In Humans

A spatula can go there?! The weirdest x-rays are often the most gruesome ones. Squeamish friends, you've been warned.

By Erin Kelly • July 9, 2015

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Secret Life Of Bees

Albert Einstein once said that if honey bees became extinct, human society would follow in just four years. While we cannot know if that prediction is true, it gets at a larger truth: bees do far more than make honey. Bees 101 When we think of bees, the honeybee is...

By Abby Norman • Jun 25, 2015

Everything You Could Ever Want To Know About The Secret Life Of Bees

Albert Einstein once said that if honey bees became extinct, human society would follow in just four years. While we cannot know if that prediction is true, it gets at a larger truth: bees do far more than make honey. Bees 101 When we think of bees, the honeybee is...

By Abby Norman • June 25, 2015

9 X-Files Episodes That Were Based On Real Events

Now that The X-Files revival has been confirmed (we’re getting six new episodes in January of 2016, which even made David Duchovny weep with joy), many have begun their requisite binge-watching of all nine seasons. What viewers might not have realized the first time around is that many episodes of...

By Abby Norman • Jun 23, 2015

9 X-Files Episodes That Were Based On Real Events

Now that The X-Files revival has been confirmed (we’re getting six new episodes in January of 2016, which even made David Duchovny weep with joy), many have begun their requisite binge-watching of all nine seasons. What viewers might not have realized the first time around is that many episodes of...

By Abby Norman • June 23, 2015

How Humans At Concordia Station In Antarctica Are Preparing For Life On Mars

One of the best ways to prepare for life on Mars is to spend an extended period of time at Concordia Station in Antarctica.

By John Schellhase • Jun 19, 2015

How Humans At Concordia Station In Antarctica Are Preparing For Life On Mars

One of the best ways to prepare for life on Mars is to spend an extended period of time at Concordia Station in Antarctica.

By John Schellhase • June 19, 2015

20 Powerful Quotes By Pope Francis On Climate Change And The Environment

This Thursday Pope Francis released his much-anticipated (or dreaded, pending your politics) papal encyclical, which took on the topics of climate change, consumerism and environmental degradation through a moral lens. In the 184-page document, he calls for what the New York Times describes as “a radical transformation of politics, economics...

By Savannah Cox • Jun 18, 2015

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20 Powerful Quotes By Pope Francis On Climate Change And The Environment

This Thursday Pope Francis released his much-anticipated (or dreaded, pending your politics) papal encyclical, which took on the topics of climate change, consumerism and environmental degradation through a moral lens. In the 184-page document, he calls for what the New York Times describes as “a radical transformation of politics, economics...

By Savannah Cox • June 18, 2015