For more than a decade now, app makers, phone makers, wireless companies — and pretty much everybody else — has been collecting and monetizing your daily movement habits. There’s genuinely no reason most of these companies (like, say, your light bulb maker) need this information, but because the U.S. is too corrupt to pass a […]
In an effort to breathe life back into the Gulf of Mexico’s "dead zone," where a lack of oxygen kills or drives away most sea creatures, Missouri is requiring major wastewater treatment facilities to significantly limit the amount of phosphorus…
Aomawa Shields' fascination with the stars started with the 1986 film "SpaceCamp." Shields' new book details her unconventional path to becoming a leading scientist in her field.