Latest Environment Stories
Existence Finally Confirmed of Hypothetical Particle That Could Help Cool the Planet
This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World’s Smallest Vertebrate
Scientists Build a Data Storage Device Out of Salmon DNA
Maldivian Leaders Might Move the Entire Nation to Australia If Sea Keeps Rising
Cyborg Insects Could be Powered by the Bugs’ Own Digestion
New Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented Rates
Human CO2 Emissions Could Avert the Next Ice Age, Study Says
Loch Ness, Like a Giant Level, Shows How Scotland Bends With the Tides
On Land Destroyed by the Tsunami, Japan is Building a Futuristic Robot Farm
Monkey Embryo Mashup Results In First Primate Chimeras
Male Wolf Spiders Swipe Other Males’ Dance Moves
China Builds the World’s Largest Battery, a Building-Sized, 36-Megawatt-Hour Behemoth
Drill, Don’t Kill: Lessons From Two Underground Lakes
Video: Groombot Brushes Cat, Ushering in a New Era of Remote Robo-Petting
Video: Swiss Jumpglider Bot Leaps Into Flight, Inspired by Insects and Bats
Nobel-Winning Quasicrystals Appear to Have Come From Space
A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
FaceTime for Apes: Orangutans Use iPads to Video Chat With Friends In Other Zoos
PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals
Air Force Researchers are Building Simple Quantum Computers Out of Holograms
Video: A Water-Propelled ‘Dolphin Jetpack’
Portable Gamma Camera Displays Radioactivity in Real Time
Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
Bill Gates to Collaborate With China on a Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor
Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
A Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Canals Help Save Endangered Florida Crocodiles
Video: A Yeti Crab That Grows Its Bacterial Meals on Its Own Body
Look at This Giant Bug!
Bacterial Lamp Can Eat Your Sewage and Light Up Your House
Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, Potent Enough to Kill Millions, Be Published?
In First Clinical Trial, Unemployed Rattlesnakes Find Work as Cancer-Fighters
New Li-ion Battery Design Boosts Energy Capacity and Charge Rate 10-Fold
Researchers Turn Hydrogen Gas Into Metal
Sleek Urban Hive Lets You Keep Bees in the Comfort of Your Apartment
Airdrop, Which Harvests Moisture Directly From Desert Air, Wins James Dyson Award
An ‘Operating System’ That Runs on Cells Could Create Whole New Life Forms
How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs
Robotic Venus Flytraps Will Trap Bugs and Eat Them For Fuel
Video: Supercooled Quantum Levitating Hoverboard Lets Students Glide on Air
Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your Fist Found in Mariana Trench
Hermit Crabs Need You To 3-D Print New Shells For Them
Brilliant 10: The Sludge Miner
Genetically Modified Algae Are Magnetic, For Ease of Manipulation
Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
Jaguar is Getting a GPU Upgrade, to Make it the World’s Fastest Supercomputer Again
Winner of Million-Dollar X Challenge Cleans Up Oil Spills Three Times Better Than Existing Tech
Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?
Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug
Can Animals Really Be Gay?
Five Reasons You Should Care About the New Ozone Hole Over the Arctic
Visitors Enjoy a Nuclear Amusement Park in Germany
Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls
New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water
Scientists Successfully Induce Hibernation in Animals for the First Time
Approved for Use: the First Birth Control for Wildlife
Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cells Could Serve Up Unlimited Hydrogen Supply
Agriculture Continues to Plow Into the Future, Now With Autonomous Robot Tractors
A Personal Turbine Makes Your Rooftop Into a Wind Farm
The Future of Skin
Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
Glow-In-The-Dark Cats Could Provide Answers About AIDS
How the Greenest Skyscraper Complex Ever Is Rising Out of the Rubble of the World Trade Center
IBM and 3M Team Up to Make a Semiconductor Adhesive That Will Enable Next-Gen Chips