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Climate Change
6mins
What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.
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.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
17mins
Rogue Putin is the biggest risk of 2023. Here are the other nine, explained by global political expert Ian Bremmer.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
Lithium-ion batteries pose challenges for our transition toward renewable energy. Sodium-sulfur batteries might be a solution.
3mins
Climate change. War. Civil unrest. Is it responsible to have kids today?
"A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980."
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.