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Be gone, stubborn yellow pit stains.

As glaciers melt around the globe, scientists are racing to retrieve ice cores that contain key historical records of temperature and climate that are preserved in the ice. Researchers are also pushing to gather ancient relics locked in the ice before they are lost to warming.

Bring your neighborhood together and refresh your bookshelf.

Hofgut Sternen returned to its renewable roots with a circular system of power generation.

The technologies are a useful tool to reduce CO2 levels but have yet to move us away from fossil fuels.

Kneading can be a positive sign that your aloof cat does actually like you.

The reusable rocket still has a 99.7 percent track record.

Researchers observe reverse social contagion at work.

These vacuums (and mops) are designed to provide comprehensive cleaning.

A lead fragment as small as a grain of rice is enough to kill one.

Popular Science lauded such an effort in 1939. Today is a whole different story.

Block out everything but you and your text.

The federal agency is overhauling its disaster rules in a bid to end a cycle of rebuilding in unsafe areas.

A backpack-sized filtration device could save valuable water.

The alleged smuggler is not the first try the tactic.

The Red Planet was a wasteland then, too.

Joby Aviation believes its VTOL could zoom travelers from Nashville to New Orleans or Boston to Baltimore.

The SpaceX CEO believes colonizing Mars is key to humanity's survival.

‘Our first reaction was: What the hell is this?’