Prenatal exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos causes widespread brain abnormalities and poorer motor skills in children. Even after a residential ban, ongoing agricultural use continues to endanger developing brains.
An 18th-century mechanical artwork depicting Mount Vesuvius' eruption has finally erupted -- 250 years later. University of Melbourne students reconstructed Sir William Hamilton's imaginative fusion of art and engineering using modern technology. ...
To study the inner workings of an atom's nucleus, scientists have traditionally relied on sophisticated particle colliders to blast nuclei apart with electrons.