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Sustainability
Beer's flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn't just a 15-minute city; it's a five-minute city.
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?
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
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.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
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.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
Here on Earth, the Sun is our primary source of light, heat, and energy. But it also poses a grave threat to human civilization.
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
Some solar cells are so lightweight they can sit on a soap bubble.
It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
Goodbye, Arabica? Learn to love Liberica.