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.
Concrete is the second most-used substance on Earth after water, and the cement that holds it together is one of the biggest headaches in climate policy. Making cement means heating limestone until it ...
At 21:02:23 UTC on 13 September 1959, the radio signal from Luna 2 stopped at the receivers of Jodrell Bank in England. The silence was the first independent confirmation that a human-made machine had ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wade out from the north-western shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, keep walking until the water reaches your chest, and there is a fair chance you are standing on a mosque. In the autumn of 2025, an ...
Almost everyone over thirty has had the same disorienting thought. The year is ending again. The summer is gone. The decade just turned over and somehow nothing about the calendar feels like it lines ...
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 ...
Ask someone in Lima what they want for dinner and the answer might contain a Cantonese verb. Vamos al chifa means let’s get Chinese food, and chifa comes from chī fàn, to eat rice. That phrase has ...
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 ...
Miranda Kerr handed jewelry to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2017, including a heart-shaped pink diamond that had been given to her by Malaysian financier Jho Low, after federal investigators ...
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