BBC News reported today that plastic is showing up in more areas of the environment than ever expected: now it’s been found in Arctic air. A group of German and Swiss scientists studying environmental contamination MORE
A flight attendant on Israel’s national carrier who fell ill with measles on a plane she was working on five months ago, has died. MORE
Good news arrived today on two fronts in the vaccines-vs-disease war. An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo started a little over a year ago, and health-care workers continue to struggle with widespread MORE
The first consumer product to come from the Chernobyl exclusion zone could hit the shelves at some point in the near future. Scientists have distilled an artisan vodka called Atomik using rye and water from MORE