Our day-to-day lives exist in what physicists would call an electrically neutral environment. Desks, books, chairs and bodies don't generally carry electricity and they don't stick to magnets. But life on Earth is substantially different from, well, almost everywhere else.
How climate change affects U.S. indigenous coastal cultures is the focus of the First Stewards symposium that started yesterday at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
As the most intense fighting in the capital of Syria continues in the 16 month uprising in that country, a suicide bomber set off explosives in the National Security Building in Damascus.