Category: Other Sciences

A new process makes it easier to recycle the chemical elements used to make the strongest permanent magnets. These rare earth magnets are used in hard drives and EV motors. Beyond their use in magnets, rare earth elements are used in lasers,…

Nia Imara: My being an artist very much affects my view of the world. And it bleeds into everything, including my science. For me, science is about the search from the outside in. Whereas art is the search from the inside out. One of the…

This story was co-published with WBUR in Boston. Read its coverage on efforts to improve the Cape’s water pollution, including one innovative town considering “pee-cycling.” The documentary short was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

This story was generously supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center.

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Gustavo Viera Ruiz: The foggy areas of the Canaries support a very special forest, which is Laurisilva.

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On December 18, a volcano emerged on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, just north of the town of Grindavik, near the world famous Blue Lagoon.

The volcanoes on the Reykjanes peninsula have awakened after eight hundred years.  The tectonic…

This is a short film for Scientific American by Wanjiru Njoroge and Brian Obra. It’s a product of the Solutions Storytelling Project, an initiative from the Video Consortium that is supported by the Skoll Foundation. It is also part of “