Future Technology

Broken glaciers in the North Pole. (pranav / Flickr) "It has passed the point of no return." Researcher Eric Rignot of the University of California at Irvine gave a dire warning on the state of the retreating polar ice caps -- nothing can stop it...

Honey bees. (paulrollings / Flickr)
Honey bees are vanishing from hives and neonicotinoids (a type of insecticide) are to blame.
Two neonicotinoids in particular, imidacloprid and clothianidin, are blamed for the population decline in a new study.