Brett Smith is a freelance journalist from Buffalo, NY. When not writing about science, medicine or other newsworthy topics, he enjoys Upstate New York by camping and hiking in the summers and snowboarding in the winters. Like most Buffalonians, he eats chicken wings year round.
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As someone who mostly writes about science for redOrbit, I cover a fair amount of climate change stories. That’s why something that New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan recently said on Morning Joe really caught my attention.
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The generation defined by Tupac's "Me Against the World" and Nirvana's "Nevermind" is still slacking when to comes to saving the environment.
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The existence of mermaids were recently, and officially, deemed fantasy and not reality by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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A conspiracy between Nature's forces has sent walls of fire ripping through Colorado sending residents, officials, and first responders scrambling into action.
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From Obama’s ‘Dad Jeans’ to the skinny jeans worn by Brooklyn hipsters — denim is, pardon the pun, weaved into the fabric of the U.S.A.
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Engineers are looking to nature for inspiration in creating stronger vehicle frames and body armor.
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In a move that appears to be straight out of Dennis Leary’s famous stand-up comedy movie "No Cure for Cancer," the FDA challenged a U.S. District Court ruling that banned the mandating of graphic images on all cigarette packaging on Tuesday.
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