Sci/Environment

Following Saturdays 5.6 earthquake in Oklahoma, authorities have shut down 37 wastewater wells used by the fracking industry to extract oil and gas. The quake was described as the strongest recorded in years. Earlier this […]

Driverless buses will be taking passengers around the eastern French city of Lyon this weekend. In a year long experiment, high-tech autonomous minibuses, capable of speeds of up to 20 kilometers an hour (12 mph), […]

A low flying plane spraying Naled – a pesticide intended to kill Zika-carrying mosquitoes – left a trail of millions of dead honey bees in its wake in South Carolina on Sunday. “They passed right […]

A major magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck off the coast of New Zealand 7.2 earthquake, 145km NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand. 2016-09-02 04:37:57 at epicenter (8m ago, depth 159km). https://t.co/AJOJK0wH1w — Earthquakes Tsunamis (@NewEarthquake) September […]

NASA has admitted that when it comes to asteroids that threaten life on Earth, they are flying blind. An asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool, large enough to wreak havoc on a regional […]

According to a new study published in the Journal of Water Health, adding sodium fluoride to public water systems increases the risk of members of the public developing type 2 diabetes (T2D).  The study by Kyle […]

A team of scientists from the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have announced that the very first extraterrestrial signal from space has been detected by a radio telescope in Russia. The international team of scientists […]

Earthquakes and tremors have rocked one of Iceland‘s largest volcanoes, Katla, raising fears of an eruption. The country is home to a dozen active volcanoes out of 130, with the largest of them, Katla, in […]

An international team of astronomers has found a huge galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, that they say consists almost entirely of dark matter.  Using the world’s most powerful telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum […]

Astronomers using the world’s most powerful telescopes have discovered a massive galaxy made up almost entirely of dark matter. Dragonfly 44 is located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Coma.  Wired reports: Dark matter […]