Environment

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A Retired Cold War Spy Plane Discovered Something Really Weird About Thunderstorms

By Kiona Smith
Science

This Innovative Technology Is Reinventing How We Can Study the Solar System

By Mustafa Aksoy and The Conversation
Health

A Hummingbird’s All-Sugar Diet Would Give Anyone Diabetes — Scientists Finally Know Their Secrets

By Bob Holmes and Knowable Magazine
Science

Ancient DNA Brought the World’s Most Threatened Cat Species Back From the Brink of Extinction

By Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Axel Barlow, José A. Godoy and The Conversation
Science

20 Years Ago, Two Physicists Made A Groundbreaking Discovery That Changed Technology Forever

By Stephen Lyth and The Conversation
Science

Shells of Ancient Ice Age Marine Life Suggest A Common Weather Phenomenon Is About to Get Much Worse

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

A Class of Materials Called Photocatalysts Can Break Down Common Toxic Pollutants, Research Shows

By The Conversation and Mahshid Ahmadi
Science

Volcano Were Blamed for the Greatest of Earth’s ‘Big Five’ Mass Extinctions — Scientists Might Have Been Wrong

By Alex Farnsworth, David Bond, Paul Wignall and The Conversation
Science

A Rose Without Thorns? How Gene Editing Is Giving Plants A Glow-Up

By James W. Satterlee and The Conversation
Science

License To Krill: There’s A New Threat To Whales And Its Just as Bad as the Last One

By Matthew Savoca and The Conversation
Science

Last Year A 600-Foot Mega-Tsunami Hit Greenland — And Researchers Had No Idea It Happened

By Stephen Hicks, Kristian Svennevig and The Conversation
Science

This Iconic Feature in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” Contains A Strange Physics Phenomenon

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Shopping

50 Amazon Finds That Will Transform Your Home Into a Cozy, Minimalist Scandinavian Paradise

By BDG Commerce
Shopping

50 Amazon Finds That Will Make Your Daily Commute Remarkably Comfortable

By BDG Commerce
Shopping

55 Amazon Must-Haves for the Ultimate Outdoor Dining Experience

By BDG Commerce
Science

Ancient Viruses Contain Hidden Secrets About Our Climate’s Past — Here’s What They Reveal

By Virginia Rich, Matthew Sullivan, Lonnie Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Zhi-Ping Zhong and The Conversation
Science

Two Upcoming Climate Phenomena Could Radically Shift the North Atlantic Ocean’s Hot Temperature

By Annalisa Bracco, Zachary Handlos and The Conversation
Science

Inside the Controversial Effort To Move This Forgotten, Mysterious Creature From It’s Native Home

By Christine Peterson and Undark
Shopping

60 Amazon Products Under $40 for Creating a Beautiful Garden

By BDG Commerce
Shopping

50 Amazon Finds Under $50 for an Organized and Stylish Bathroom

By BDG Commerce
Shopping

55 Genius Amazon Backyard Finds That Are So Clever It Hurts

By BDG Commerce
Science

This Piece of Coral In Fiji Is 600 Years Old — What It Reveals About Our Climate’s Future Is Nerve-Wracking

By Juan Pablo D'Olivo, Ariaan Purich, Jens Zinke and The Conversation
Science

Ancient Civilizations Used These Simple Measures to Cool Cities Down — Why Can’t We Do the Same?

By Brian Stone Jr. and The Conversation
Science

This Victorian-Era Technology Is Still Astonishingly Accurate At Capturing Weather

By Giles Harrison and The Conversation
Shopping

50 Amazon Products That Will Spruce Up Your Backyard

By BDG Commerce
Science

A Meteorologist Reveals 3 Ancient Urban Legends About Where Tornadoes Strike

By Kiona Smith
Science

This Is What Happens To Trees When They Take In Excess CO2

By Rob MacKenzie, Richard Norby and The Conversation
Science

These Are the Hidden Clues Experts Use To Predict Hurricanes With Satellites

By Xingchao Chen and The Conversation
Health

This Overlooked Measurement Is Essential To Predicting Heat Risk

By Shengjie Liu, Emily Smith-Greenaway and The Conversation
Science

Why Iceland’s Recent Volcanic Eruptions May Just Be The Beginning

By James Day and The Conversation
Science

Scientists Drilled Into An Underwater Mountain In the Atlantic’s ‘Lost City’ To Obtain A Massive Core Sample

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Wildfires Can Change The Weather In Strange And Sometimes Dangerous Ways

By Kyle Hilburn and The Conversation
Science

The Hottest Ocean Temperatures In 400 Years Are Putting The Great Barrier Reef in Extreme Peril

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Greenland’s Ice Sheet is Both Younger And Less Stable Than Scientists Thought

By Lauren Leffer
Surf's Up

The Physic Behind The Waves Teahupo'o Is Olympic-Worthy

By Tom Shand and The Conversation
Science

An Underwater Drone Helped Scientists Explore the Final Glacial Frontier

By Lauren Leffer
Science

These Adorable Sea Creatures Play A Key Role In Tracking Climate Change

By Lilian Dove and The Conversation
Science

Paris Olympic Athletes Will Have To Compete In the Middle of A Massive Heat Wave In Europe

By Brian P. McCullough and The Conversation
Science

Why We Find Extreme Weather So Fascinating — And How That Can Be Used for Good

By Will de Freitas and The Conversation
Science

The Great Salt Lake Emitted More Than 4 Million Tons of Greenhouse Gasses In 1 Year

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Scientists Literally Cooked Like Neanderthals To Uncover A Lost Secret About Their Ancient Diets

By Elana Spivack
Science

What The Social Habits Of Older Animals Tell Us About Human Aging

By Tim Vernimmen and Knowable Magazine
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Can You Stop A Tornado? Atmospheric Scientists Reveal the Truth About the Biggest Plot Point in ‘Twisters’

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Climate Change is Triggering an Unexpected and Fundamental Planetary Change

By Lauren Leffer
Science

Scientists Discover A Lost Truth About What Actually Happened At Pompeii

By Elana Spivack
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28 Years Later, The Science of Tornadoes Has Changed Since the Original ‘Twister’

By Doris Elín Urrutia
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2024's Most Exciting Disaster Thriller Owes a Huge Debt to Star Wars

By Hoai-Tran Bui
Science

Australian Fossilized Amber Reveals A 42 Million Year-Old Secret

By Maria Blake, Jeffrey Stilwell and The Conversation
Science

Can An EV Discharge Power Back to the Grid? An Emergency Situation Revealed the Answer

By Bjorn Sturmberg
Science

Forgotten, Half-Century Old Film Photographs Reveal A Hidden Truth About Antartica’s Glaciers

By Ryan North, Tim Barrows and The Conversation