February 25, 2021 Tech News Texas’ Icy Disaster Makes the Case for Uniting the US Grid Take a look at the map above. That WI-EI Seam is the border between the Western and Eastern interconnections. All…
February 13, 2021 Tech News Scientists Can Literally Become Allergic to Their Research This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bryan Fry’s heart was pounding as…
February 2, 2021 Tech News US Cities Are Way Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints Having each city build an individual SRI is like developing a national weather forecasting system by asking each county to…
January 30, 2021 Tech News Dozens of Egyptian Tombs Will Be Unearthed at Saqqara Necropolis Archaeologists in Egypt are preparing to open a 3,000-year-old burial shaft at the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, in the…
January 30, 2021 Tech News A Quarter of Known Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990 This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The number of wild bee…
January 28, 2021 Tech News 9 Adventurers Died Mysteriously. A New Theory Explains Why The researchers modeled how such winds could have built up snow above the tent, and how long it would have…
January 23, 2021 Tech News A New Project Maps the Pacific Coast’s Critical Kelp Forests This story originally appeared in Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An ambitious project to…
January 21, 2021 Tech News Is This a Fossilized Lair of the Dreaded Bobbit Worm? Not to toot my own horn, but I know a thing or two about bizarre animals. And I can tell…
January 19, 2021 Tech News The Ongoing Collapse of the World’s Aquifers But scientists haven’t modeled global risks of subsidence—until now. To build their model, Sneed and her colleagues scoured the existing…
January 18, 2021 Tech News The Autonomous Saildrone Surveyor Preps for Its Sea Voyage If you happen to be crossing the San Francisco Bay or Golden Gate bridges this week, look for a massive…