An underwater robot dove nearly 13,000 ft. in the Argentine Sea and found fishing nets, bags, and even a VHS tape, as if the ocean floor were keeping a trash pile from another era
Morocco is getting serious about water security with mega-desalination plants and new rules for cities of millions, a massive bet that shows how far the water crisis can go
Spain created aircraft landing gear capable of storing energy like a battery, a strange idea that could turn the force of every landing into usable electricity
Researchers at a Brazilian University are looking for microplastics in the airways of sleep apnea patients, raising an uncomfortable question about how much plastic we may be breathing in while we sleep
A new study says linking solar panels, batteries, and heat pumps with direct current could save up to 16.7% on electricity, and the trick is avoiding invisible conversions happening inside the home
Texas engineers created a jacket capable of extracting up to 900 milliliters of drinking water per day directly from the air, an invention that sounds like science fiction for surviving a drier future
Homes that can be built in just one week, without cement and with the promise of saving energy: the system trying to prove that building fast does not have to mean building worse
The mystery of Mars’ missing water just got stranger: scientists think part of its ancient atmosphere and moisture may have been trapped for 3 billion years inside minerals on the Red Planet
Italian teenagers followed a rumor that something was hidden beneath their school gym and ended up helping reveal a 1,800-year-old luxury Roman house near the Colosseum
Bosch has just broken with more than a decade of tradition in the e-bike industry with its first rear hub motor, a 5.1-pound urban system designed to integrate seamlessly into the wheel
A Málaga-born pheasant traveled thousands of miles to Vietnam, and its mission is to help revive a species missing from the wild since 2000
The Tagus River has just issued a silent warning in Spain: at the 19 monitoring sites analyzed over the course of nearly a year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and signs of fecal contamination have been detected along some 300 kilometers of the rive
Birds near the front lines in Ukraine are building nests with fiber-optic cable left behind by military drones: a small but striking image of how nature is trying to survive amid the rubble of the battlefield
Bolivia has just released a rehabilitated jaguar into its natural habitat for the first time, but Yaguara’s story does not end when the cage is opened: now the toughest test begins, deep in the jungle
It isn’t the Iberian lynx or the polar bear closest to extinction in Spain, but a fish you can still legally catch as summer dries its rivers to stagnant pools
It all started with some coffee grounds that would normally have ended up in the trash; now, scientists have managed to turn them into a coal-like fuel in just 90 seconds
The table salt in your kitchen could play an important role in the next big energy battle, as Morgan Stanley is already forecasting annual demand of 830 gigawatt-hours for sodium batteries by 2030
A town in Extremadura called Miajadas has just launched an initiative that seems like a laboratory experiment but is already yielding results: converting green hydrogen and captured CO2 into renewable gas that flows through actual pipelines
Río Beach, whose recovery seemed impossible for years, now attracts more than 300 early-morning swimmers and hosts open-water swimming schools in a spot that almost no one dared to approach before
A 15-year-old student has built a generator for just $12 using a propeller, a PVC pipe, and recycled parts, and her idea is once again drawing attention because it could provide lighting to coastal communities by harnessing the energy of water
Many people work out their arms without really knowing what they are doing, but the area that most gives away “bat wings” is right behind the arm and requires specific strength training—not just pretty movements
A seahorse that gets pregnant, a fish that hides its young in its mouth, and a fox that feeds its entire family: the surprising list of nature’s most extraordinary parents
For decades, it has been said that self-fertilization was like entering an evolutionary dead end, but a new study has just put a rather uncomfortable spin on that old idea
Everything seemed like a typical case of tuberculosis that was responding well to antibiotics, until scientists analyzed the infection more closely and discovered small mutations that could alter the prognosis
It seemed impossible to detect such fine arteries on a moving X-ray until a new training method enabled an AI to go from almost never getting it right to getting it right in most cases
The history of cities has always seemed to be driven by money, technology, and institutions, but a new study suggests there may be something more fundamental and powerful: the simple act of bringing people closer together changes the entire network
What looks like a beautiful dance in the Kushiro wetlands could be a secret conversation between two cranes, featuring a series of bows, poses, and movements that last up to three minutes and respond to each other’s gestures
A man with severe paralysis caused by ALS used a brain implant at home for more than 3,800 hours and was able to convert his attempts to speak into text, computer-generated information, and a voice similar to his own
A Montana county commissioner wanted to prepare his county in case coal revenues dried up, and voters ousted him from office in a Republican primary that served as a warning to other mining communities
Homo erectus teeth dating back about 400,000 years, found in China, have just revealed an unexpected clue about a possible family connection to the mysterious Denisovans
The country with the largest forest area in South America may face a momentous decision: to accept large-scale soybean farming and cattle ranching projects or to protect the rivers, communities, and forests that took centuries to form
On May 30, a loud boom shook Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and NASA traced it to a meteor that broke apart with the force of 300 tons of TNT
The U.S. power grid has just been given a 60-day ultimatum, as artificial intelligence data centers consume so much energy that they are already raising concerns about the impact on household electricity bills
It looks like a yellow toy floating in a lagoon, but it has a huge mission: to find the most resilient corals before the ocean warms up again
