Changes relating to the treatment of waste produced by coal-powered plants and proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) earlier this week will not survive the courts, Betsy Southerland, the former director of science and technology for the EPA Office of Water and the woman who wrote the coal combustion residual rule in 2015 told Newsweek.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned of "sweeping and severe" consequences for "nature and humanity" as a result of climate change. In its latest report on the state of the world's oceans, the IPCC said severe events that used to happen once per century will become an annual occurrence by around 2050.
When the drunken festivities of the night before turn into the crushing headache and existential dread of the morning after, who hasn't come to regret that last glass of wine. The good news is that hangovers could soon be a thing of the past.
The White House submitted its 2020 budget proposal on Monday, coming in at $4.7 trillion. The proposition includes a generous $8.6 billion for Trump's highly controversial border wall and an additional $33 billion for defense spending (bringing the total to $750 billion) - as funding for science receives a battering.
Helminth therapy is a new frontier in experimental medicine, promising to cure all manner of conditions from allergies to autoimmune diseases to irritable bowel syndrome to even, possibly, autism. Here's the catch: It is not yet recommended or approved by the FDA and there is very little interest in the treatment from members of the established medical community.
Friends of Reddit user IncrediblyShinyShart were in for a stomach-turning surprise when he invited them around for a Sunday brunch. His guests arrived to a feast of pastries, cakes, mimosas, and tacos. But here's the catch - the tacos were made with meat from his very own foot.
When you think of a sociopath, you probably picture Christian Bale in American Psycho, or Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. But like most mental health conditions, sociopathy-or antisocial personality disorder (ASP)-exists on a spectrum; and not all sociopath are serial killers.
Can your friends affect how many miles you cover-or the pace you set-each time you head out for a run? The answer seems to be yes, according to a new study published in Nature Communications . Researchers from MIT's Sloan School of Management found that runners connected through a social network influenced each other's training in surprising ways.
Moore's latest book presents a broad overview of the entire continent, from the earliest known human settlements in c. 11,000 BC to the arrival of the conquistadores in the 1500s, but it is succinctly written and crammed with detail.
This week a judge in the U.K. ordered Northumbria University to pay a $502,000 fine for a scary incident that occurred at the school in the spring of 2015: During a sports science experiment gone wrong, two students overdosed on caffeine after they were accidently given a dose 100 times stronger than researchers intended.