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Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
We're separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
The $300,000 Model A is a true flying car — it can be driven on roads as well as flown in the air. And it's one step closer to your garage.
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
John Templeton Foundation
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.
There may be more energy in methane hydrates than in all the world’s oil, coal, and gas combined. It could be the perfect "bridge fuel" to a clean energy future.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider "explaining what you know" to an actual expert in the field.
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
Frugality can also benefit the environment.
Million Stories
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
All human development, from large cities to small towns, shines light into the night sky.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.