Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?
To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends in disappointment
The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch se [...]
Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato
Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato. [...]
