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Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought

Ecuador is in trouble: Drought has shrunk its reservoirs, and its hydroelectric dams have had to power...

WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!

On a recent trip to Giant Eagle, my local grocery store in Pittsburgh, I noticed something new...

The Auroras Should Be Spectacular This Summer, Thanks to Solar Maximum

Auroras filled much of the world’s skies for several nights in mid-May as a historic geomagnetic storm...

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.String theory captured the hearts and minds of...

US Offshore Wind Farms Are Being Strangled With Red Tape

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.America’s first large-scale offshore wind farms...

The Sea Is Swallowing This Mexican Town

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español, and has been translated from Spanish."Wake up! The sea...

Only the Hardiest Trees Can Survive Today’s Urban Inferno

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Last fall, I invited...

Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.Brown howler monkeys are...

Why Are We Seeing These Crazy Northern Lights?

The aurora borealis is usually visible only way up north, but two weeks ago the night sky...

A Warp Drive Breakthrough Inches a Tiny Bit Closer to ‘Star Trek’

A team of physicists has discovered that it’s possible to build a real, actual, physical warp drive...

Don’t Believe the Biggest Myth About Heat Pumps

If you’re one of the 100 percent of humans who lives somewhere warmer than –460 Fahrenheit, we’ve...

Neuralink’s First User Is ‘Constantly Multitasking’ With His Brain Implant

In 2016, Noland Arbaugh suffered a spinal cord injury while swimming in a lake. The details are...
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