A copper refinery transformed its waste stream into an unlikely renewable energy goldmine, turning forgotten byproducts into the very panels that now power its operations.

A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.

A Florida rancher protected his hard-won land from development by locking it into conservation, proving that ownership and stewardship can be the same thing.

The Pacific's most powerful storms can reshape coastlines from hundreds of miles away, delivering dangerous surf long before—or even if—the hurricane itself never arrives.

Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...

An ice cave on Earth, used here as a representative image of a water reservoir hidden beneath thick ice. It does not show Ganymede, its surface or its subsurface ocean. Photo by Han-Chieh Lee on ...

An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...

A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the telescope work. It is now the thing that ...

Kiruna’s church went for a walk in August 2025, at half a kilometre an hour, on 224 wheels. The trip took two days and included a daily stop for fika, the Swedish afternoon coffee break, because some ...

Placing concrete in a block at the mid-section of the dam, an eight-cubic-yard bucket handled by an overhead cableway. Bureau of Reclamation photograph via the US National Archives (NARA 293921), ...

Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent decades turning the electromagnetic noise of the outer planets into ...

There is a difference between knowing something and just feeling like you already know it. Epictetus built a whole piece of advice around that gap. As one modern translation of his Discourses (2.17.1) ...