Photo©themess/123rf You don’t have to be a Marxist to see that it has finally happened: technology, driven by greed and the growing concentration of wealth, is creating conditions that will force society to build stronger social support systems simply to avoid major...

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...