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This Asteroid is a $10,000-Quadrillion Lump of Iron and a Potential Opportunity to Study an Exposed Planetary Core
Out between Mars and Jupiter in the solar system's asteroid belt, there's a lump of iron and nickel called 16 Psyche that has a...
Thailand is Making COVID-19 Protective Gear From Upcycled Bottles
We all know that recycling is good for the planet in the long run, but now, in a more immediate way, it’s also being...
Malawi Inventor Lights Up His Whole Village Basically for Free–Starting With a Bicycle and a River
“To invent,” Thomas Edison said, “you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Colrerd Nkosi had all the junk he needed—and the will...
Cold Planets Exist Throughout Our Galaxy, Even in the Galactic Bulge, Scientists Discover
Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than a few thousand light years from Earth. Yet our...
Irrigation System Talks to Plants to Find Out When they Need Water — Cutting Water Use by 30-50%
If only plants could talk, what tidings they could share! Fortunately for farmers, an agricultural company has 'translated' the biochemical signal related to certain...
Youth is Fighting Microplastic Pollution with Magnetic Liquid After Winning Google Science Fair
A young Irishman has come up with his own "cool science-y method" to solve the microplastic pollution conundrum, winning Google's international science fair in...
Scientists Work to Turn the Tide of Oyster and Seagrass Decline in Chesapeake Bay, Often by Hand
The Chesapeake Bay has, despite massive setbacks, continued to return to something resembling a healthy estuarine ecosystem, in no small part because of the...
Buy Some Wind Power With Your Furniture? IKEA is Now Selling Renewable Energy
As the world's premier home furnishings retailer, IKEA has for decades been forgetting to offer consumers the most important home furnishing of them all:...
Archaeologists Discover Mighty Queen’s Seat of Medieval Power in a Lost Monastery in England
The seat of power for one of the most influential women in Medieval English history, Queen Cynethryth, has been discovered in a small Berkshire...
Mining Zinc, Nickel, and Cobalt from Plants: “Phytomining” is the Sustainable Future
Big tropical mining companies could soon be presented with a green alternative to traditional strip mining by letting plants hoover up the trace minerals...
The Yellow Center of the Deadliest Flower is a Lifeline to Farmers – and the Planet
In Kenya, a drive through the Central Highlands will sometimes reveal a landscape covered in a beautiful white-petaled flower with a lethal secret.
The yellow...
Falcons Have Natural ‘Eye Makeup’ to Improve Hunting Ability, Scientists Discover
Dark 'eyeliner' feathers of peregrine falcons act as sun shields to improve the birds' hunting ability, a new scientific study suggests.
Scientists have long speculated...
Massive Balloon the Size of a Soccer Stadium to Launch Telescope to Edge of Space to Study How Stars Form
The world's biggest balloon, the size of a soccer stadium, is to be sent to the edge of space.
The instrument—named Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope,...
The First Amateur Astronomer to Ever Discover a New Moon – And it’s Orbiting Jupiter
One might think that since we can take detailed images of galaxies millions of light years away, there's no way something as significant a...
Astronomers Spot Light From Behind a Black Hole for the First Time – Proving Einstein Right Again
When doing astronomy, you can't blink, because the difference between a never-before-seen phenomenon, and just a regular day at the telescope can be as...
Company Says its Multi-Day Storage Batteries For Renewable Energy Are the Holy Grail We’ve Been Waiting For
Unveiled after years of work, an energy startup in Massachusetts is claiming that in a few years they can produce, at scale, "the battery...
This Beloved Alaskan Fish has the Lowest Carbon Footprint of Any Major Protein in the World
Off the pristine waters of Alaska, there is a harvest of an almost magical fish that everyone loves, but that maybe doesn't get the...
This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower Will Be Super-Bright With Up To 50 Shooting Stars An Hour
During the next few weeks, look up and you can expect to see more than your average number of bright and shimmery shooting stars...
How Scientists are Managing to Trap the World’s Coldest Plasma in a Magnetic Bottle
Physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean...
‘Future Belongs to Renewable Energy’ Says India’s Largest Oil Baron and Greenland, Which Ended Search for Oil
"The future belongs to renewable energy," is a big thing for Big Oil's fourth biggest player, and Asia's richest energy baron to say, but...