Environment & Sustainability

Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.

XRISM’s Science

XRISM XRISM Home Spacecraft Science News For Scientists XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) is designed to transform our understanding about some of the universe’s hottest regions, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity. It uses high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy…

NASA Artemis II Rocket Rolls Back to Vehicle Assembly Building

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft secured to mobile launcher 1, leaves Launch Complex 39B to roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…

Toxic waste from screens ends up in endangered dolphins, study finds

Gene-altering chemicals found in humpback dolphins and finless porpoises, raising alarm they may end up in human food chain Toxic e-waste chemicals from television, computer and smartphone screens have been found in the brains and bodies of endangered dolphins and…

A hotter, wetter South is becoming a breeding ground for mold

Regina is haunted by the specter of mold.  She found the insidious spores in the closet, behind the refrigerator, and around the bathtub for two years after the dishwasher flooded her apartment in Asheville, North Carolina.  The infestation only got…