Kissing bugs can carry the parasite that causes Chagas disease, and they are now making their way through the US.

For example, 72 pesticides approved for use in the United States are banned or in the process of being phased out in the EU.

Just like your pet, these big cats can't resist the lure of an open cardboard cube.

Wildlife Conservation Society is treating the purloined parrots at a specially built care facility; some 900 have been released back into the wild.

From ribs and onions to chips and corn, these barbecue-friendly foods can be unfriendly to dogs and cats.

Did you know that cheetahs sound a lot like your housecat?

Norwegian architect Tron Meyer cuts a stair out of solid engineered wood.

Which side of the bed gets the stair? Batlab solves it with two.

It does a lot more than just get you from floor to floor, in this interesting Korean courtyard house.

Perhaps lofts are not the best solution for tiny homes and apartments.

This multifunctioning stair hides a generous bookcase underneath.

A health insurer practices what it preaches.

Here is an architect who knows how to get people on their feet.

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

And when you get to the top of this, you deserve a treat.

Sweden shows how to build comfortable apartments for families, and stairs that people want to use.

Michael Janzen comes up with an interesting and elegant design. But is it safe?

It seems that these days you can build just about anything with a CNC machine.

Neri&Hu turn climbing the stairs into an experience for Bloomberg in Hong Kong.

Why go diagonally when you can go straight up?

160 tons of steel and 10 tons of copper never looked so good

There's more than one way to go up in a small space, and this is one smart alternative.

Because if you make it beautiful and open, people will use it.

Syte Architects insert a mezzanine and a terrific storage stair in existing loft.

Sometimes you wonder what they were thinking.

This is a big problem in old buildings: providing universal access without ruining the look of the building.

When the splendid full moon rises this weekend, she’ll look a bit bigger and brighter than usual.

These incredible images sent back by the Juno spacecraft gives us a detailed look at Jupiter.

From supermoons and blood moons to black moons and blue moons, here’s a cheat sheet to the full moon in all of her luminous guises.

Not only did he have a startlingly brilliant brain for physics, but Stephen Hawking had a pretty good knack for life as well.

This month's Full Buck blood moon will star in the longest total lunar eclipse of the century.

See the view captured by the International Space Station as the category 4 hurricane makes landfall over Florida.

Spend 90 minutes in the eyes of an astronaut.

Nicknamed 'Farout' by the team that discovered it, the celestial object is some 11,160,000,000 miles away.

For billions of years, a tiny moon has been slyly orbiting the ice giant – now the little lovely has a poetic name, as well as a surprisingly violent backstory.

To cap off a week of black hole fever, the cosmic object has now been named by a language professor in Hawaii.

For the first time ever, NASA has recorded a likely marsquake – listen to the haunting tremor here.

Scientists think there is a hidden, protected ocean inside of Pluto – and the implications are wild.

The so-called 'transient lunar phenomena' has been stumping scientists for years – but an explanation may be in the works.

Morocco is making good on it's stated goals of increasing renewable energy development, leading towards 40% of electricity from renewables over the next decade.

The Grand Inga dam will be double the size of China's Three Gorges, but big questions remain about whether ordinary Africans will actually get its electricity.

The latest figures from the EIA show renewable energy sources overtaking nuclear power in the US, through the first nine months of 2011.

Fresh criticism from Georgian environmentalists adds to the diplomatic tensions created by Turkey's dam-building spree.

Hydroelectric power is an easy choice to make if you have access to a stream or river, but this concept takes advantage of the streams running through our walls: our plumbing.

Think you need to be an engineer and spend a bundle to create a mini-hydropower generator? Think again.

Emissions from tropical hydropower dams in Brazil are up to four times higher than often assumed, new research shows.

Using the flow of water inside the pipes to power the water network's own monitoring devices could eliminate the need for batteries in those systems.

World hydroelectric power generation has risen steadily by an average 3 percent annually over the past four decades.

While grid-scale liquid metal batteries might be a more exciting technology, good old pumped hydro storage is one of the ways we can store power from intermittent sources (like solar & wind) or shift supply around (from the night to peak use).

A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences serves as a great example of the interconnectedness of nature and how human activity can disrupt life-sustaining systems.