This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Wood pellets, by design, are highly flammable. The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are used in everything from home heating to…
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Wood pellets, by design, are highly flammable. The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are used in everything from home heating to…
Are the dogs of Chernobyl evolving right in front of us? That’s a question some scientists have been asking in new research that has been keeping tabs on the wild animals roaming around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ).
Ever since…
Scientists have long looked for ways to turn the tide in our fight against climate change. So far, no matter what ideas they come up with, none have been solidified as actual missions with concrete goal. But that could change soon, as…
YouTuber Drake Anthony, who goes by “styropyro,” has created what he claims is the world’s strongest handheld laser. According to Anthony, the legal limit of a laser pointer is 5 milliwatts, so he decided he wanted to build one…
In the same way that “space is big” (as described in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), quantum physics is confounding.
Science’s best minds have been puzzling away at it for over a century, pawing at the subject like
Utah became the first US state to ban fluoride from being added to public drinking water in March. Soon after Florida followed suit, with US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr telling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop…
Touch both objects. They’re the same temperature, but the wood feels warmer, right? Why is that? It’s not about temperature but thermal energy. When your hand touches an object, there is a heat conduction interaction. Energy is transferred from…
Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a 16th-century merchant vessel’s remains off…
Fish like the rainbow trout suffer 2 to 20 minutes of excruciating pain while they are…
The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo’oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid.
The image was captured by a camera onboard the probe, which is currently more than 3 million…