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And when you factor in a van’s price, the cost of fuel, insurance, and depreciation, plus parking fines and congestion...

Christopher Intagliata: When paleoanthropologists eat lunch with biomechanists… well, sometimes the small talk can get pretty technical. Adam Van Casteren:...

Reanalysis of icy rock grains from a ring of Saturn – fed by ice plumes from its moon Enceladus –...

But utilities will likely play the biggest role in ushering in a new era of electricity grids, says Max Baumhefner,...

The United States holds enough oil, gas and coal in reserves to burn through the world’s remaining carbon budget and...

A fungal skin disease that caused amphibian numbers to plummet in Costa Rica and Panama lowered the number of amphibian...

In the late 1970s, a physicist and textiles engineer in Texas named Robert Steadman published a paper called “The Assessment...

A searing heat wave was pushing California’s electric grid to the brink of blacking out earlier this month when, in...

44 of the 48 most populous coastal cities have areas sinking faster than the sea is rising, driven by groundwater...

This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really just working out...

Calling customer service is a situation we all know and dread. We navigate a complex maze of automated voice commands,...

A smart way of putting together lots of nanogenerators that exploit static electricity to generate a current could open up...

A new tool from Belsky and his colleagues, introduced in 2020 and updated earlier this year, acts as an aging...

When Allison Baker moved to what she calls “snake heaven,” a home on 2.5 acres just outside of Dallas–Fort Worth,...

A black hole with a mass about 10 times that of the sun is thought to be the closest to...

“There’s a significant amount of math and formulas that has been written about this over the years,” says Still, “but...