Articles by

Chris Baraniuk

‘Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells

Capturing or otherwise neutralizing the CO2 must be done safely, says Stephen Wallace, who runs a microbiology...

Truffles Are Becoming Even More Expensive. Blame Climate Change

“The biggest finding that we had was that truffles were responding to these hot and dry summers,”...

Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups

The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something...

To Fight Severe Drought, China Is Turning to Technology

“You could actually exacerbate the drought situation,” says Gabriel Collins at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public...

Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future

There’s no shortage of work out there, either. China recently completed a 20-kilometer railway tunnel in the...

The Dangerous Chemicals Lurking Inside Shipping Containers

For their study, Hinz and her colleagues enlisted the help of the New Zealand customs authority. Staff...

Turkey Probably Hasn’t Found the Rare Earth Metals It Says It Has

The official press release about Turkey’s “discovery” is scant on details. But Goodenough suggests that it is...

The Race to Build Wind Farms That Float on the Open Sea

The makers of wind turbines have, for many decades now, labored to harness one of the mightiest...