Category: 9. Sci/Tech

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The “one big beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 is set to upend many aspects of American life, including climate policy….

A Texas-based company with backing from Lord of the Rings film-maker Sir Peter Jackson is…

When you imagine your favorite place from your past, what do you picture? Do you see blue sea and blue skies, or do you see the green of grass and trees?

A new study in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology shows that people tend…

During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera.

Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a kilometer from their home.

In the bolt’s wake,…

Slowly but surely, Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is crumbling apart as the cracks on its surface grow with every passing year. The massive glacier — about the size of Florida — now teeters on the brink of collapse, which would cause…

Scientists have managed to find a rare insect after it supposedly went extinct more than two decades ago. The Behningia baei, a species of mayfly that hasn’t been seen since 2002, were rediscovered in the Mae Chaem River in Thailand…

After four decades, researchers have discovered the tomb of a Maya king in Belize. The king, known as Te K’ab Chaak, was the first ruler of the politically significant city of Caracol and began a royal dynasty that lasted over 450 years.

The…

After a 2008 study reported that refined sugar could be addictive, it sparked a slew of buzzy headlines and the infamous claim that “sugar is as addictive as cocaine.” This has since created a certain stigma around sugar and led to shifts in…

The Moon’s gravity causes all the seas and oceans in the world to bulge outwards on the sides facing directly toward and away from the Moon, with low points in between.

Because Earth rotates and the Moon orbits Earth, the two bulges sweep…

Space is cold, and research has shown time and time again that space ice is prevalent throughout the universe. However, despite sharing a similar name to the ice we find in glaciers or even in our freezers here on Earth, new research…