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.
What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left behind? That is roughly what a team led by ...
Two and a bit tonnes of snapped rock, stacked into neat circles, in a chamber that has never once seen daylight. Nobody has worked out why. Bruniquel Cave sits above the Aveyron gorges in the ...
In September 2024, the journal Science published one of the more striking pieces of quasi-experimental economics to appear in a peer-reviewed venue that year. Eyal Frank, an assistant professor at the ...
Cyanobacteria bloom in a shallow Michigan lake during the fall of 2024. Photo by Leon Katona. Public domain (USGS). In the summer of 2024, a small lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was ...
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 experiment at Oregon State University’s research farm in Corvallis was set up like a fair fight. Two groups of weaned Polypay lambs, matched and weighed. Two pastures side by side: one open to the ...
There’s a satisfying tidiness to the idea. You drink a coffee, the grounds are disposed of, and somewhere down the line that same waste comes back as a fire log that heats your living room. It sounds ...
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
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 ...
The 15-metre Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories, photographed in June 1962. Penzias and Wilson used it to discover the cosmic microwave background in 1964. Credit: NASA, public domain ...
The 64-gram student experiment that lifted off from NASA’s Wallops Island facility on June 22, 2017 would have been easy to lose in a coat pocket. It was a cube less than four centimeters on a side, ...
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