Latest Environment Stories
New Scanner Tracks Zebras’ Built-In Bar Codes
Putting a Price on Carbon Could Slow Oceans’ Acidification
Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean
The Postal Network: USPS Trucks Could Monitor Air Quality, Road Conditions and Traffic Nationwide
Genetically Modified Cows Produce Milk Akin To Human Milk
Baby Chicks Reject Escher-esque Impossible Shapes
Ground-Up Animal Meat and Bone Could Be Turned Into Biodegradable Plastics
Six Ways Bio-Inspired Design is Reshaping the Future
Future Firefighters Could Fight Fire With Blasts of Flame-Bending Electricity
MIT Lab Creates the World’s First Feasible ‘Artificial Leaf’
Video: Seagull Robot Takes Off And Flies On Its Own, Just Like the Real Thing
Moveable Beasts: Tracking Winged Migrations To Predict Weather, Stop Disease, and Save Species
Vintage Cutaways Show the Nuclear Reactors of Our Past (and Present)
Video: 3-D-Printed Ornithopter Insect Hovers, Flapping Delicate Wings
Can Next-Generation Reactors Power a Safe Nuclear Future?
Boiling Fuel Pools at Japanese Nuclear Plant May Pose Bigger Threat Than Meltdown
How Nuclear Reactors Work, And How They Fail
Satellite Images Before and After Quake Show Devastation Throughout Japan
Meet Japan’s Earthquake Search-and-Rescue Robots
My Visit to An American Rare Earth Metals Mine
Largest Undersea Cable Ever Could Export Iceland’s Abundant Geothermal Power to the Rest of Europe
Plants Can Survive the Radioactive Soils of Chernobyl, Widening Options For Space Farming
Add Just a Bit of Water To Tiny Canisters And Power Fuel Cells on the Go
Climate Scientist Digs Up Data By Literally Mining The News
By Splitting the Hot from the Cold, a New Engine Design Could Dramatically Boost Efficiency
One Billion Hectares Worldwide Have Now Been Planted With Genetically Modified Crops
Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
Unseen Currents: A Blind Oceanographer Chases Undersea Storms
The World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor Takes Complex Circuitry to the Nanoscale
Woodpeckers’ Heads Inspire New Shock-Absorbing Systems for Electronics and Humans
Water Flea Genome is the Most Complex Yet, and May Help Scientists Study Organisms’ Response to Stress
Attractive Italian Viaduct Has Wind Turbines Built In
Using Muons as a Disguise, Chemists Fool Helium Into Thinking It’s Hydrogen
Future of Electronics: Single-Layer Molybdenite Transistors Trump both Silicon and Graphene
China’s New Super-City Will Merge Nine Urban Centers into a Single, 16,000-Square-Mile Megatropolis
Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
The State of Science and Tech: What We Futurephiles Should Expect From Tonight’s SotU
How To Genetically Modify a Seed, Step By Step
The Second Green Revolution: An Alliance of Organic Farmers and Genetic Engineers
Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough
Video: Panasonic Ships A Snowman 8,000 Kilometers to the Desert, In a Cardboard Box
Volcanic Fury Overwhelms Indonesia
Japanese Researchers Announce Plan to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth Within Five Years
Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells
Foxes Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Hunt Prey, Scientists Say
Farewell, Tevatron: Fermilab’s Particle Accelerator Will Cease Operation This Year
Video: Solar-Powered Car Sets New World Speed Record in Australia
Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives
Frogs in Peril: A Race to Save a Threatened Frog With Risky Experimental Techniques
Potty-Training Pigs Cuts Runoff From Taiwanese Farms by 80 Percent
What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None
Swedish Firm Proposes Configurable Cities With Buildings that Roll Around on Rails
Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test
Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators
Video: Smartest Dog Ever Can Pick Out 1,022 Toys By Name
Nanotube-Tethered Flying Wind Turbines Could Harvest Energy At 30,000 Feet
World Wildlife Federation Creates Unprintable .WWF File Format to Save Trees
Vatican Praises Genetically Modified Crops, While U.S. Judge Orders Their Destruction
Breeding Silicon and Solar Power in the Middle of the Desert
How Science Is Changing Your Thanksgiving Feast
Video: Elephant-Trunk-Inspired Robot Arm Grabs With Sensitivity
Emirati Man Undertakes 200-Mile Desert Journey in Solar-Powered Wheelchair
Chinese Cow Manure Generates Electricity In Largest-Ever Methane Capture System
Wi-Fi Radiation Is Killing Trees, New Study Finds