Photo©jetsam86/123rf Cars may be a modern phenomenon, but motion sickness is not. More than 2,000 years ago, the physician Hippocrates wrote “sailing on the sea proves that motion disorders the body.” In fact, the word nausea derives from the Greek naus, meaning ship....

RV Falkor (too), Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Research vessel, operating in Antarctica during the 2025 Ocean Census/SOI South Sandwich Islands Expedition. Photo courtesy Schmidt Ocean Institute Marine Scientists Discover Record Number Of New Species by Julia Jacobo, ABC...

Photo©PanDemin/123rf Dear EarthTalk®: How does solar power adoption affect electricity costs? — Julie Smith, Pittsburg, PA Solar energy promises long-term savings and environmental benefits, but the path to widespread adoption is challenging, particularly in the way...

Photo courtesy Nick Green U.S. Geological Survey/CERC In February 2025, the classical pianist Betsy Arakawa died in her New Mexico home from a virus most people had never heard of. Her husband, the actor Gene Hackman, died a week later of heart disease. The pathogen...

Photo©liudmilachernetska/123rf Most of us acquire our first crystal without much ceremony. A smooth piece of amethyst picked up at a gift shop, a tumbled rose quartz passed along by a friend, a chunk of obsidian that caught the light in a way that felt personal. We...

Photo©MauricioToro/123rf When I was twelve, I had a bicycle, a Boy Scout knife, a library card, and what amounted to a couple of square miles of free range. My parents had no idea where I was most afternoons, and I had no real idea where they were either. We met up at...

Photo courtesy Bingjiefu He/Wikipedia New York Mayor Mamdani Applauded For Closing $12 Billion Budget Deficit Without Austerity Measures by Julia Conley, Common Dreams In announcing New York City’s executive budget for the 2027 fiscal year on Tuesday, Mayor Zohran...