The first exoplanet was spotted in 1988. Since then more than 3,000 planets have been found outside our solar system, and it's thought that around 20 percent of Sun-like stars have an Earth-like planet in their habitable zones. We don't yet know if…
How to avoid being star-struck. During my PhD, a journal invited me to review a paper by an impressive list of authors. The paper made broad claims about how exposure to environmental stressors at certain stages of early development affected fish…
SAN SALVADORSAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - A retired Salvadoran general on Friday acknowledged for the first time that the armed forces were responsible for a notorious 1981 massacre of more than 1,000 people during the country's civil war. Juan Rafael…
(Credit: Ekaterina Pokrovsky/shutterstock) As the climate warms, seas will rise, storms will proliferate and cities will bake. But, in addition to the marquee issues global warming causes, there will likely be a host of tangential issues, many of…
