A radical gamble to fight dengue—releasing millions of sterile male mosquitoes—has upended everything scientists thought they knew about disease control.
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.
A registered beefalo, the bison-cattle breed at the centre of the study. Credit: Karl Young, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A bull called Joe’s Pride changed hands in 1975 for $2.5 million. His ...
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), ...
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 ...
An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also avoids the kind of communications blackout the Artemis II crew experienced when ...
On the night of August 1, 1969, a green pulse of light left a telescope at the Lick Observatory in California, travelled a quarter of a million miles to the Sea of Tranquillity, struck a ...
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 ...
A gift of more than $5.5 million from Anna and Greg Brockman — Greg being the cofounder and president of OpenAI — closed the gap on a roughly $10 million community fundraising target and cleared the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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