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Get Ready For The Spectacular Perseid Meteor Showers
Every year about this time, stargazers start to get excited about the Perseids, the biggest and most spectacular of all meteor showers. The "shooting stars" are already streaming through our skies at...
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Rare Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Is Less Than A Week Away
On Sunday, September 27th, skywatchers will witness the grand finale of the rare lunar eclipse tetrad (series of four consecutive total lunar eclipses). And it promises to be quite a show. That's...
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Twenty-Year-Old Boyan Slat Takes On The Monumental Task Of Cleaning Our Oceans
Most 20-year-olds are still trying to figure out what they want to do in life. Not Boyan Slat. Ever since he was 16-years old, the Dutch teenager has had one mission - To clean up the trillions of...
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How Tiny Mealworms May Help Reduce Our Massive Plastic Pollution Problem
Styrofoam, a plastic made of expandable polystyrene foam (EPS) is a useful invention. In fact one could call it almost too useful! The lightweight and buoyant plastic can be used for a myriad of...
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How Rajendra Singh AKA "Waterman Of India" Solved Rural Rajasthan's...
While world population continues to increase, our freshwater supplies appear to have stagnated and in some cases even trickled to a halt. Residents all the way from California to Brazil are battling...
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No "Tricks" Expected From Surprise Asteroid That Will Whiz Past Earth On...
Looking for a spooky Halloween tale? How about this? According to NASA scientists, an asteroid measuring between 1,050 to 2,100 feet will be making its way towards Earth on October 31st. While the...
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Earth's Gravity Is Pulling Cracks In The Moon's Surface
The fact that the moon's gravitational pull affects ocean tides is well-known. However, what scientists did not know is that the Earth's gravity has a similar tug on the satellite. The only difference...
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Severe Pollution Causes India's Bellandur Lake To Spew Toxic White Foam
Though we always hear about how polluted our oceans, lakes and seas are, it is rare to witness the contamination without at least wading into the waters. However, such is not the case for the...
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El Niño Transforms World's Driest Non-Polar Desert Into A Lush Wildflower...
Deserts are by definition barren areas of land with little precipitation. But few compare to Chile's Atacama Desert. Often called the world's driest non-polar desert, the 600-mile stretch of land gets...
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Playful Gumdrop Bins Help Reduce Sticky Gum Litter And Give It A Second Life
Most people have a love-hate relationship with gum. For delicious as it is, the sticky tasteless waste that remains is not just annoying especially when inadvertently stepped upon, but also, harmful...
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Can Lab Grown 'Super' Coral Rescue Our Rapidly Dwindling Reefs?
Rising water temperatures and the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in our oceans are killing our beautiful coral reefs at an unprecedented rate. Add the current El Nino weather pattern that is...
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Climate Change May Be Responsible For Northern Russia's Mysterious Craters
In July 2014, a helicopter pilot flying over Northern Russia's remote Yamal Peninsula came across a massive crater in the thick, permanently frozen subsurface layer of soil known as permafrost. As...
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Paris Climate Conference Results In Landmark Agreement To Curb Greenhouse Gas...
Two weeks ago representatives from 196 countries arrived in Paris to resolve one of the world's most pressing problems — Climate change. On Saturday, December 12th, the group emerged victorious with...
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Not Feeling The Chill Yet? (Astronomical) Winter Is About To Begin!
Though many meteorologists in the Northern Hemisphere consider December 1 as the first day of winter, the season's astronomical start is not till winter solstice that occurs on December 21 or 22...
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Methane Gas Leak In Southern California Forces Thousands To Evacuate Their Homes
The 2015 holiday season brought little cheer to the thousands of Southern California residents affected by a methane leak from an underground gas storage facility. Since late November, over 2,800...
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Innovative Ideas To Curb Food Waste Range From Sharing To Dumpster Dining
Food waste is a growing problem both in the United States and across the globe. In North America alone anywhere from 30-40% of perfectly edible food ends up in the trash each year. To put it in...
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The Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan
Thanks to strict regulations imposed by the US Environmental and Protection Agency, clean tap water is something Americans take for granted. But such is not the case for the residents of Flint,...
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Guess What? There Are Twelve Kinds Of Rainbows!
Remember ROY.G. BIV (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), the mnemonic that helped you to memorize the order and colors of the rainbow? Well, you can forget it because as it turns out,...
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Wish To Build The Perfect Snowman? Pull Out Your Ruler!
News flash: Everyone's favorite snowman, the adorable Olaf from Disney's animated film Frozen is not perfect! At least, that's what Dr. Hind, a mathematician at England's Nottingham Trent University...
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YAY! Massive Methane Gas Leak In Southern California Is Finally Sealed
The massive methane gas leak that has been plaguing some Southern California residents since October 2015 has finally been sealed. The announcement that was accompanied by the release of a time-lapse...
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