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Experiments on suborbital rockets are revealing how to make a better iron furnace.
Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
The technology could yield "made-to-order resistance genes" to protect crops against pathogens and pests.
Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Ironically, the company did so using technology perfected by the oil industry.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
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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.
The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional power plant turbines.
But it's still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
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It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
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.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
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 took the values and principles of cooperation to the next level, we could effectively tackle many crises.
Walking is rarer in the U.S. compared to similar nations. It is also deadlier: Nearly 7,500 pedestrians were killed in 2021.
Within a month of that initial conversation, Peter Singer became a vegetarian.
The robot can drive heavy steal beams into the ground at a rate of 1 per 73 seconds, which will help expedite solar farm construction.
Old coal mines can be converted into "gravity batteries" by retrofitting them with equipment that raises and lowers giant piles of sand.