Every year, around 20 million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean, rivers, and lakes — disrupting ecosystems and livelihoods. NUclear TEChnology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC Plastics), ...
As global concern over nuclear tensions periodically resurfaces, one of the world’s leading historians of nuclear weapons has ...
If you are a schoolkid of the right age, you can’t wait to lose a baby tooth. In many cultures, there is a ritual surrounding it, like the tooth fairy, a mouse who trades your tooth for a ...
The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, ...
Society is built on increasingly complex and interconnected infrastructure systems to support our way of life. The National Academies study transportation, energy, water systems, and urban design to ...