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UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.

Mongabay as well as being an author and freelance writer for the Guardian and other outlets. He started his journalism career ...

Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

A villa in Pompeii has survived two thousand years and is still well preserved. Image via Wiki Commons. Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to ...

A hidden community of artists, scientists, skeptics, and storytellers is keeping the Bigfoot legend alive in ways far ...

After anger, many described feeling unsupported, then disappointed. These emotions often fueled a final stage: determination.

Image in public domain. Most of us think of orange juice as a simple breakfast habit, something you pour without much thought ...

They built a cassette tape of DNA big enough to store every song ever recorded. In traditional DNA storage, all the data is mixed together. That’s why it’s so hard to retrieve it. To read one piece of ...

A new genetic study links China’s cliffside burials to their living descendants.

This list exemplifies the hard work in science over this past year, not simply in the lab but where it matters.

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...