Sponge-city tech is teaching concrete to drink stormwater like a thirsty park — and it can’t happen fast enough
Cities around the world are trying to become more like sponges. The idea sounds simple enough, with more parks, rain gardens, green roofs, wetlands,…..
Coral reefs seemed doomed by marine heatwaves, but a new global map has just identified 64,200 square miles that may still have a real chance
For years, coral reef news has felt like one long alarm bell. Marine heatwaves have turned once-colorful reefs ghostly white, and each bleaching event…..
A Malawian farmer’s tiny plot became a blueprint for climate-smart ag without billionaire budgets
Bougainville locals want justice for a toxic mine scar, proving “ghost” pollution never sleeps
Science
Greenland’s ancient frozen landfills contained microbial traces dating back 4,500 years that provided insights into hunting, agriculture, hygiene, and daily life; now, the melting ice is exposing these remains
Ancient garbage may not sound glamorous, but in Greenland, it has become a frozen archive…..
Switzerland just scanned what’s under everyone’s feet, turning secret geology into a national GPS for planners
How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a…..
It all started with a simple bowl of oatmeal and an apple; now scientists believe that these foods contain more than 139,000 compounds that could change the way we understand nutrition
That bowl of oatmeal, apple slice, cup of coffee, or piece of grilled fish may…..
It all began with a material thousands of times thinner than a human hair; now scientists believe they have found an unexpected way to manufacture much more efficient superconductors
A tiny redesign beneath an ultrathin superconductor may point toward a new generation of far…..
Neutron stars may double as dark-matter detectors — because who wouldn’t use cosmic wrecking balls for science?
Dark matter is still one of the biggest missing pieces in modern science. Astronomers can…..
XRISM is reading the Perseus cluster’s elemental gossip, one X-ray whisper at a time
A new X-ray study has taken a sharper look at the hot gas inside the…..
The Space Station’s quantum lab just went colder, edging scientists closer to physics so weird it makes gravity blush
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on a newly upgraded NASA Cold Atom…..
Forget about epic explosions: just 300 years ago, a swarm of hyper-powerful stars would have left a perfect crater next to the central black hole… and today, astronomers see it as a kind of space graffiti that’s still smoldering
What could punch a nearly round hole in the glowing gas near the Milky Way’s…..
NASA is launching its wildest plan since “Apollo 13”: launching a Pegasus rocket from the air, releasing the LINK spacecraft into the middle of the Pacific, and catching the veteran Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it crashes like a burning hunk of scrap metal onto your roof
NASA is moving into the final stretch of an unusually fast rescue attempt for the…..
The microwave-sized mini-refrigerator floating 400 km above Earth has just put atoms into “ghost mode” at –273 °C, and NASA scientists believe this experiment could equip future rockets with a “galactic GPS” that not even errors in solar signals could throw off course
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on a newly upgraded NASA Cold Atom…..
Mobility
China’s wild idea: a 1,118-mile rail bridge across the Gobi that dares gravity, sandstorms, and basic common sense
A new rail bridge rising out of the Gobi has been described as a 1,118-mile mega-project that…..
A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart to pick up the world’s largest battery-electric ferry for South America, and the scale point is that the vessel is about 430 feet long and built to carry around 2,100 passengers on the Argentina-Uruguay route
A heavy-lift ship is heading to Hobart, Tasmania, for an unusual job. The MV Black Marlin will…..
Energy
Economy
Neither the U.S. nor Iran: Spain discovers a rare-earth gold mine capable of meeting 33% of Europe’s needs and revolutionizes the geopolitical landscape of the green transition
Europe’s clean-energy race may have a new flashpoint in central Spain. In Campo de Montiel,…..
The world’s largest floating city is back in action: 80,000 residents, a stadium, schools and even eight helipads
It sounds like something pulled from a science fiction movie. A vessel about one mile…..
European beavers turn out to be secret carbon hoarders, stashing 26 % more than any human climate model guessed
No one expected the humble beaver dam to look like climate infrastructure. Yet a new…..
Egypt’s dead-serious plan: build an entire desert city from scratch and crown it with a 1,312-foot skyscraper that nobody saw coming
Egypt is building a new capital from scratch in the desert about 28 miles east…..
Construction of Jeddah Tower just reached the 100th floor, and the number that makes it feel unreal is the target, more than 3,280 feet tall with over 167 floors as Saudi Arabia aims for the world’s tallest building by 2028
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower has moved past a milestone that once sounded almost unreal. The…..
Elon Musk admits that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem
During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas…..
Saudi Arabia imports sand even though it’s a desert country, but desert sand is too smooth and rounded to make strong concrete
Saudi Arabia has some of the largest deserts on Earth, but in 2023 it still…..
ExxonMobil is leaving New Jersey as its legal home after more than 140 years, and what matters isn’t the new address but what it signals about taxes, headquarters power, and corporate strategy
ExxonMobil shareholders have approved moving the oil giant’s legal home from New Jersey to Texas,…..
An 11,000-carat ruby find (about 4.85 pounds) reshapes mining in Myanmar, and the giant stone reopens the debate over value, traceability, and the real price of gemstones
Miners near Mogok, Myanmar, have unearthed an 11,000-carat rough ruby, a find large enough to…..
What started as a routine highway survey near Hradec Králové turned into one of Bohemia’s biggest Celtic finds, a 62-acre settlement where archaeologists pulled up gold and silver coins, Baltic amber, and workshops that suggest a production center, not just a stopover
A future highway in the Czech Republic has led archaeologists to something far older than…..
Technology
Environment
Sponge-city tech is teaching concrete to drink stormwater like a thirsty park — and it can’t happen fast enough
Cities around the world are trying to become more like sponges. The idea sounds simple…..
Coral reefs seemed doomed by marine heatwaves, but a new global map has just identified 64,200 square miles that may still have a real chance
For years, coral reef news has felt like one long alarm bell. Marine heatwaves have…..
Switzerland has excavated a “second country” beneath the Alps: more than 1,400 tunnels and about 1,243 miles beneath the rock to change the climate… without almost anyone noticing when traveling
If you ride a train through Switzerland, there is a moment when daylight disappears, your…..
The season’s first named storm might morph out of Gulf Coast rainclouds—Mother Nature’s reminder she writes the calendar
The season’s first named storm might morph out of Gulf Coast rainclouds—Mother Nature’s reminder she…..
A Malawian farmer’s tiny plot became a blueprint for climate-smart ag without billionaire budgets
In Malawi’s southern Chiradzulu district, Diana Sitima’s farm stands out for a simple reason. On…..
Bougainville locals want justice for a toxic mine scar, proving “ghost” pollution never sleeps
The fight over Bougainville’s Panguna mine is no longer just a story about what happened…..
Peru’s Cerro de Pasco villagers haul a mining giant into court, demanding someone clean up a century-old mess
A new lawsuit in Peru is putting one of the Andes’ most troubling mining conflicts…..
Traffickers’ new nightmare: Artificial intelligence detects shark fins hidden in suitcases with 95% accuracy
A suitcase can look ordinary from the outside. Inside, it may hold the remains of…..
