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Rachel Culin considered herself a Toyota loyalist, one of millions of people who appreciated the company’s reliable and fuel-efficient hybrids. But she recently bought an electric Chevrolet Bolt to replace her Toyota Prius because the Japanese automaker had been too slow when it came to selling electric vehicles. “Where are the options for those people…
Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the project that cloned a mammal for the first time, Dolly the sheep, shocking scientists who had thought that cloning was impossible, has died. He was 79. His death on Sunday after a long illness with Parkinson’s disease was announced by the Roslin Institute, a research center near…
While the holiday season may be months away, now is the best time to book your travel to visit family and friends for those winter months. Typically, the further in advance you are able to firm up your travel plans, the better the deals are. Before you start planning for your holiday travel, you should…
Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China quickly improves, a benchmark study showed Tuesday. Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fraction of the amount…
A Russian robotic spacecraft that was headed to the lunar surface has crashed into the moon, Russia’s space agency said on Sunday, citing the results of a preliminary investigation a day after it lost contact with the vehicle. It is the latest setback in spaceflight for a country that during the Cold War became the…
Over the Labor Day weekend, social media feeds flooded with stark warnings about a major storm slamming the East Coast of the United States next week. That hypothetical storm became Hurricane Lee on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said. But as of Wednesday night, it was too early to say whether a major hurricane would…
A riddle haunts the Titan disaster. It’s the presence on the doomed craft of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77. The Frenchman was one of the world’s great submariners. So why was he, of all people, diving repeatedly to the Titanic on a submersible that many experts saw as a catastrophe waiting to happen? “It’s a source of…
A 2-year-old Amur tiger at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado died in a tragic “freak accident,” the zoo announced in a statement Tuesday. The tiger, Mila, was given a dose of anesthesia on Aug. 25 for an upcoming dental procedure, after which she jumped on a bench to lie down while the anesthetic took…
Each planet of the solar system has its own look. Earth has aquamarine oceans. Jupiter has panchromatic tempests. Saturn has glimmering rings. And Neptune has ghostly clouds — at least, it used to. For the first time in three decades, the electric-blue orb is almost completely cloud-free, and astronomers are spooked. Neptune’s cloud cover has…
Hopes were running high in Nairobi, Kenya, this week as African leaders gathered for an inaugural climate summit designed to urgently kick-start the continent’s transition to clean energy. The summit, which included leaders from Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, the U.S. and the E.U., tried to create a “new narrative” around Africa, according to James Irungu…
