What's Happening at the Large Hadron Collider

12/11/18 The 2018 update on the work at the Large Hadron Collider. Markus Klute

Exoplanet Atomospheres

12/02/14 How do scientists investigate exoplanet atmospheres --and what are they discovering? Mercedes Lopez-Morales

How the Brain Produces Language --and What Can Go Wrong

11/17/15 The science of neural networks reveals the awesome complexity of normal speech production and also brings help for language disorders. Frank Guenther

Ancient Environmental Shifts and Evolution

05/03/21 A warming climate led to the emergence of grasslands, which led to major evolutionary changes. Aly Baumgartner

Are Coastal Communities Prepared for Rising Seas?

07/31/20 Rising seas are already affecting many coastal cities and communities. How can we best prepare, and how fast? Erika Spanger-Siegfried

Journey to the Center of the Earth

11/05/13 What modern seismologists are learning about the Earth's interior. Miaki Ishii

Beyond the Gene: Epigenetics Revealed

06/12/12 ew understanding of the complex relationship between genes and the epigenome. Mary Gehring

Environmental Toxins and the Brain

10/2014 Many common toxins in the environment significantly harm the fetal brain. Philippe Grandjean

Carbon Capture and Conversion

07/19/21 A carbon capture innovation that can produce useful, products, including non-polluting transportation fuels. Sami Khan

Innovations in Clean Water Technology

12/20/11 Desalination offers a solution to the water shortage problem... John Lienhard V

Today's Featured Contributors

Featured Author

Philippe Grandjean, D.M.Sc., M.D.

A world authority on how environmental toxins affect brain development brings the evidence to the general public in this book.

Featured Guest

John Lienhard V, PhD

A world leader in the design of desalination engineering