Technology

With better infrastructure and “spongy” green spaces, urban areas have made progress but should be soaking up way more free stormwater.

Governments, businesses, and even militaries pay for experts to help them prepare for the worst. In a world lurching from disaster...

Extreme heat waves are already here, and they are killing tens of thousands of people. Blasting through 2 degrees Celsius of warming...

“I feel so powerless in this state.”

A 1970s plan to grow underwater limestone objects has been repurposed as a way of regenerating the seabed, reestablishing corals,...

An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hidden in an as-yet-unseen extra dimension. Scientists are racing...

Los Angeles saw 592 slides in one week, a reminder that excessive precipitation events set off more than flooding.

A Houston-based company called Intuitive Machines made lunar history this week.

BetaVolt’s nuclear battery lasts for decades, but you won’t see one in your next iPhone—powering a mobile device would require a cell...

Getting these climate superheroes into more US homes would massively cut emissions, and it would be cost-effective. Here’s how the...