Technology

The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through...

Some species can absorb extreme amounts of nickel from soils. Such “phytomining” could help provide batteries essential for the renewable...

A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person...

A 62-year-old Massachusetts man with failing kidneys is the first living patient to receive a genetically altered kidney from a pig.

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Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears

A fatal bear attack in Slovakia reignited accusations that conservationists are protecting the animals at the expense of human safety....

Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer...

In a livestream on X, the paralyzed 29-year-old man used his Neuralink brain implant to control a computer.

There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year...

The CDC is begging Americans to get vaccinated against measles as cases continue to rise.

The World’s E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point

A new UN report finds that humanity is generating 137 billion pounds of TVs, smartphones, and other e-waste a year—and recycling less...

A hidden Arctic cave holds secrets about our past and future

For half-a-century scientists have wondered what clues this enigmatic Greenland cave might hold. Now they're about to find out

This concrete can eat carbon emissions

Concrete is responsible for more than four percent of all global CO2 emissions. In the race to find alternatives, some companies are...

The World Needs to Crack Battery Recycling, Fast

The shift to electric vehicles is exciting, but it will leave us with thousands of tonnes of spent batteries.

Citizen Zoo Is Rewilding the UK, One Grasshopper at a Time

The London-based social enterprise is turning regular people into at-home zookeepers.