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We've heard this argument before.
The potential benefits of returning the thylacine to Australia make the project worth the effort.
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country's total beef consumption.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
The world is facing many crises, and we should look to natural interdependence and ancient wisdom as we explore science for solutions.
It’s early days, but if the efforts can be efficiently scaled-up, such biological recycling could put a dent in the plastic waste problem.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
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.