Technology
If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon
Less pavement and more green spaces help absorb water instead of funneling it all away—a win-win for people and urban ecosystems.
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
East European governments are starting to distribute the tablets as a precaution, but there are limits to the protection they offer,...
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be...
Supermassive black holes are engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of our galaxy and its central hole don’t quite match...
Why India's Capital Is Teeming With Mosquitoes
City residents have long resorted to low-cost, do-it-yourself remedies that may be harmful to human health.
A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real...
Physicists just reconstructed a 19th-century paradox that seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics (but really doesn’t).
Recycled Battery Materials Can Work as Well as New Ones
In an independent test, cathode components Redwood Materials made from reused metals matched the performance of those made from raw...
The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs—and Humans—Live...
People have been searching for a fountain of youth for thousands of years. Celine Halioua thinks she’s found one—for canines. Be patient,...
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers...
A new study finds no correlation between research and development spending and outlandish drug prices.
Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats
Tiny cell clusters called organoids integrated with the animals’ own tissue, a step toward developing sophisticated mini-models of...
Gas Drilling Is Disrupting Animal Migration
Scientists are investigating why large animals like the mule deer of Wyoming go where they go—and how humans can get out of their...
