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New Air-Conditioning Technology Could Be the Future of ...

Standard AC units cool buildings but contribute to global warming. New technolog...

Adorable Moth-Size Bats Found in the Pacific Islands' L...

An expedition has discovered a remote Fijian cave with thousands of microbats th...

Follow a Hurricane Expert into the Heart Of the Beast

Along with an expert, we take you into some of nature's most monstrous storms. 

New Hurricane Forecasts Could Predict Terrifying Explos...

Hurricane forecasters are debuting a new model they hope will better predict whe...

Migratory Birds Are in Peril, but Knowing Where They Ar...

Light is a very dangerous, if not so obvious, threat to birds who migrate at nig...

Mass Shootings Will Keep Spiraling Upward without Big C...

Data show that mass-shooting deaths behave as a “species” different from other g...

Particle Physicists Dream of a Muon Collider

After years spent languishing in obscurity, proposals for a muon collider are re...

How Gene-Edited Insects Are Providing Food, Fuel and Wa...

Companies are recruiting black soldier flies and mealworms as a protein source i...

ChatGPT Can Get Good Grades. What Should Educators Do a...

AI can generate clear, concise text—but people still need to learn how to write

Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each...

Social media companies’ drive to keep you on their platforms clashes with how pe...

How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs

There is a long U.S. legacy of plutocrat-funded pseudoscience. Congress just emb...

How Archaeological Methods Are Helping Identify Victims...

Identifying wildfire victims through DNA is difficult, but archaeological method...

The Colors of Stars, Explained

From dim red to brilliant blue, stellar colors span the spectrum—and reveal how ...

Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us 'See' Some of the...

Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pul...

There Are No U.S. 'Climate Havens' from Heat and Disast...

Even supposed “climate havens” in the U.S. face a riskier future, and infrastruc...

Brain-reading Devices Allow Paralyzed People to Talk Us...

Two studies report considerable improvements in technologies designed to help pe...

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