Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power — And That’s a Big Deal for Our Energy Future
Thirty years later, old-school solar panels are still delivering on their promise.
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The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It’s So Vast It’s the Size of Chicago
A desert covered in solar panels and sheep could mark the beginning of the end for coal in China.
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A Swiss Pilot Flew a Solar-Electric Aircraft to the Edge of the Stratosphere
A record-breaking flight offers a glimpse into the future of clean aviation
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This Newly Discovered Croc Hunted Dinosaurs Before the Asteroid Hit
A new hypercarnivorous crocodyliform emerges from the sediments of Patagonia.
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How Tariffs Could Help Canada Wean Itself from Fossil Fuels
Tariffs imposed by the U.S. could give its trading partners space to reduce their economies’ dependence on oil and gas.
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The World Map We Learned in School is Wildly Misleading and Africa Wants It Gone
Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.
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Spiders Are Trapping Fireflies in Their Webs and Using Their Glow to Lure Fresh Prey
Trapped fireflies become bait in a rare case of predatory outsourcing.
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A Single Mutation Made Horses Rideable and Changed Human History
Ancient DNA reveals how a single mutation reshaped both horses and human history.
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Scientists Make Succulents That Glow in the Dark Like Living Night Lights
These glowing succulents could one day replace street lamps.
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US Military Just Tested a Microwave Weapon That Instantly Zapped an Entire Swarm of Drones Out of the Sky
The U.S. military tests a powerful new defense against drone swarms.
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The World Map We Learned in School is Wildly Misleading and Africa Wants It Gone
Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.
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Scientists Say Dogs, Rats and Even Birds Dream About Their Daily Lives and We Finally Know What They See in Their Sleep
Turns out, animals dream a lot like us: about everyday life.
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Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Roman ‘Drug Stash’ Hidden Inside a Bone
Archaeologists have finally proven that Romans used black henbane. But how did they use it?
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The Growing Menace of Space Junk: How a Minefield of Orbiting Debris Threatens Our Future in Space
Low-orbit Earth could become inoperable for spacecraft and satellites if this complacency persists, with dire consequences.
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The World’s First Laptop Weighed 24 Pounds and Had a Five Inch Screen, But It Changed Computers Forever
From obscurity to fame to fortune and back again, Adam Osborne changed the computer landscape.
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Researchers Say This Wash Cycle Makes Clothes Look New Longer While Slashing Dye Transfer And Pollution
Washing in cooler, shorter cycles saves clothes, energy, and oceans.
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Global Farmlands Already Grow Enough Food to Feed 15 Billion People but Half of Calories Never Make It to our Plates
Nearly half of the world’s food calories go to animals and engines instead of people.
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Astronomers Warn That Satellite Mega-Constellations Could Steal the Night Sky Forever
The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.
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Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater
A renewable energy source that runs day and night, powered by salt and fresh water.
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Geologists Thought Rocks Take Millennia to Form. On This English Coastline, They’re Appearing in Decades
Soda tabs, zippers, and plastic waste are turning into rock before our eyes.
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Magic Mushrooms Change How People Look at Art But Not How Much They Like it
On psychedelics, eyes fixate on details rather than wandering freely.
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AI Bots Were Made to Use a Stripped Down Social Network With No Curation Algorithms and They Still Formed Toxic Echo Chambers
Can social media make emotionless AI bots pursue a political ideology? The answer will shock you.
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Ancient Teeth in Ethiopia Reveal Early Humans Lived Alongside a Mystery Species Nearly 2.8 Million Years Ago
Ancient teeth are rewriting the story of our evolution.
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Smart Locks Have Become the Modern Frontier of Home Security
What happens when humanity’s oldest symbol of security—the lock—meets the Internet of Things?
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Doctors with More Patient Complaints Also More Likely to Take Industry Money, Study Finds
There seems to be a concerning link between patient complaints and industry payouts.
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A 12,000-Year-Old Skeleton With a Hidden Quartz Arrowhead in Vietnam May Be the Earliest Evidence of Violence in Southeast Asia
12,000-year-old burial reveals a mystery of survival, care, and conflict
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