Technology
Ski Resorts Are Stockpiling Snow to Get Through Warm Winters
Under protective coverings, piles of snow can be stored for a surprisingly long time, allowing ski resorts to mitigate some of the...
Wildfires Are Contaminating Water Supplies
Wildfires don’t just destroy forest—they can increase sediment in rivers and reservoirs, spark algae blooms, and pollute watercourses...
Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner...
Speakers inside the spacecraft are producing a pulsing noise, and neither astronauts nor Mission Control can identify its cause.
Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete...
A new mathematic proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges.
Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon
Climate change is threatening Earth’s biodiversity. Could frozen regions of the moon be the best place to “back up” life-forms?
A Rare Coincidence of La Niña Events Will Weaken Hurricane...
The oceans have produced a rare coincidence of the Pacific and Atlantic Niñas, which will lessen the severity of the hurricane season—though...
John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics,...
A few hours before the opening ceremony, we spoke with the former sprinter, who today is the European Space Agency’s first para-astronaut.
The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than...
The shift toward renewables is officially in high gear.
Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads
In a trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the drug tecovirimat, also known as TPOXX, was found to be no better than placebo...
A Look Inside the Airbus Factory Revolutionizing the World...
In Hamburg, aviation giant Airbus is transforming aircraft production with state-of-the-art robotics technology on its planes. We...
