There's another notable first in the field of quantum physics to report on, and it's all to do with electron spin: the tiny, built-in magnetism of these particles, as if each one is carrying a microsc...

The US Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland is set to host a 390 megawatt (MW) Generation IV molten salt nuclear plant.

You've heard every version of the battery argument that exists at street level. Range, charging times, what the grid can handle, whether the truck weighs too

In the winter of 1948, a steep stretch of road in Klamath Falls, Oregon, became a test site for geothermal energy. Instead of relying on ploughs, salt or other conventional methods, engineers embedded...

Project West Ford tested a sparse ring of copper dipoles as a passive radio relay. Only part of its 480-million-needle payload dispersed individually, leaving a complicated legacy.

The Navy just made a claim you don't hear from the Navy very often: one of its newest destroyers can do the air and missile defense work of two of its older

Scientists long attributed rain damage to physical abrasion and chemical degradation from acidic substances. A new study offers a third idea, which could help researchers develop longer-lasting coatin...

Updated 2026 list of companies supporting ICE. Interactive map + sources included. Learn how these banks, tech companies, and other corporations are backing ICE.

In 2010, scientists poured fluorescent green dye into a domestic well in southern Idaho and tracked its underground movement. The experiment near Malad Gorge State Park showed that groundwater could m...

Researchers discover that adding 10% eggshell waste to fired clay bricks significantly reduces thermal conductivity by 50%, transforming food waste into an effective insulating building material. This...

In 2009, a drilling operation in northeast Iceland unexpectedly punched into molten rock at Krafla, revealing one of the hottest geothermal resources ever reached by a borehole. The Iceland Deep Drill...

Nuclear plants get built where the concrete gets poured, and then they stay there for forty years. You need a river or a coastline, a cooling system, a decade

What if the rocks beneath our feet could one day be turned into a giant hydrogen factory, not by drilling up an existing fuel reserve, but by sending controlled bursts of electricity deep underground?...

The machine those patents are pointed at is the part worth your attention. It is going inside the turbine room of a Tennessee coal plant that made its last

Swedish aerospace company GKN Aerospace has developed a compact, ITAR-free turbojet engine for Project Otto, a long-range UAV demonstrator capable of carrying up to 300 kg over 600 km or 100 kg over 1...

Satellite reentries are adding alumina nanoparticles to the upper atmosphere. The ozone-depletion pathway is credible, but current models disagree sharply on its scale.

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.

In the middle of the 19th century, sending a message across the Atlantic was still a distant ambition. Telegraph lines had already begun shrinking distances on land, but an ocean presented a different...

Wyoming wants to hollow a hydroelectric plant into a mountain and build a lake above it that refills the system every night. How will the system work?

The same computing history artifact was previously pictured alongside Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore in 1978.

On January 10, 1946, a team of military and civilian personnel at Camp Evans, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, aimed a modified radar system at the rising Moon and transmitted high-powered radio pulses towa...

A 2025 ruthenium isotope study found evidence that material from Earth’s core is entering the mantle and reaching Hawaiian volcanic rocks, though it did not directly detect gold in transit.

Carlingford Mountain preserves the fossilized remains of the magma network that supplied volcanoes roughly 60 million years ago.

In response to the June 13, 2026, hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin, a new camera was installed to track activity over a broader area than had previously been possible.

When a volcano erupted on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in January 1973, the immediate concern was not only the homes and streets in its path but also the harbour that supported the island's fishing...

Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically change how an eruption unfolds. When magma becomes superheated, it can dissolv...

In 1882, an American woman inventor, Maria E. Beasley, received a patent for a life raft with collapsible metal floats, airtight containers, and features that allowed use after overturning. Her work f...

Except the hottest enhanced geothermal system ever built is not in Iceland. It sits on the western flank of Newberry volcano, about 25 miles south of Bend,

In 1874, an African-American inventor designed an improved bathroom system for trains through a patent filed by Lewis Howard Latimer and Charles W. Brown. The invention introduced a safer railroad car...

How a nation transformed geological curse into the world's most efficient heating system.

Explore the ambitious and controversial 1950s proposal by Soviet engineer Petr Borisov to dam the Bering Strait, aiming to melt the Arctic ice and alter global climate. Discover the implications of ge...

A diamagnetic substance is slightly repelled by magnetic fields. With a strong enough magnet, the diamagnetic force can override gravity, and the substance will float in the air. Graphite, the main co...

Metasurfaces are ultrathin optical components engineered with arrays of nanoscale structures that can control light in ways that are difficult for conventional optics. Unlike traditional optical compo...

More than four decades after the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens, one family in the US state of Washington has watched a damaged landscape slowly come back to life. The change did not happen because ...

Intermittently inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, from the brain by boosting its glymphatic system

Scientists modeled a millennium of earthquake history and found unusually high stress accumulating along major Southern California faults.

Eight people stepped into an airlock in the Arizona desert on the 26th of September, 1991, and stepped into something that was to be an example of the human future. Biosphere 2 was a massive enclosed ...

Solar fences are gaining ground in Europe, as households continue to invest in renewables amid the war on Iran.

MIT's Concrete Sustainability Hub used Raman spectroscopy to reveal how CO₂ injection — in collaboration with CarbonCure — triggers a silica gel intermediate that reshapes the cement matrix into ...

In 1913, a peaceful material revolution took place within a Sheffield lab. Harry Brearley, a self-taught metallurgist, was studying gun barrel alloys to address one of the biggest industrial problems:...

Necessity drove Gene Kroupa to invent a combination wood heating and wood cooking stove that was efficient at both functions. For a little extra you could add a water heater. Originally published as "...

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U.S. renewable power company Ormat Technologies has developed a geothermal power plant design that would be the largest ​of its kind in the industry, capable of producing 100 megawatts ‌of electricity...

The plumbing systems of volcanoes are vast and complex. But they aren't consistent, even in the same volcano. A Cornell-led collaboration found very different mechanisms behind two historic eruptions ...

The foundation of the system is its visual model, which Cheng trained on a custom mosquito dataset. To do that, he relied on a DSLR camera with...

Mount Fuji can rise by up to two centimeters during heavy rainfall, revealing a surprising geological process unrelated to magma movement.