When the sun goes down and the wind dies off, renewable electricity can fall right when people still need it. That gap is one reason engineers keep hunting for sources that can run steadily, even on a ...

Young wildlife photographer Rithved Girish has been named Young Close‑up Photographer of the Year 7 for his image “Guardians of the Hive,” winning the youth category of the international Close‑up ...

If you have ever tried to hide a Wi-Fi router behind a houseplant, you get the basic idea. Ukrainian officials say Russian forces are hiding communication antennas inside fake “trees” so Ukrainian ...

In southern Mexico, bulldozers and rail crews are reshaping one of the narrowest slices of land on the continent. Millions of tons of earth are being moved to finish the Interoceanic Corridor of the ...

Solar panels keep getting cheaper and more common, but even great hardware still leaves a lot of sunlight unused. What if a cell could squeeze more charge out of the same photons, the tiny packets of ...

What if drought hit several of the world’s biggest food-growing regions at the same time? That worst-case timing can ripple through food systems, so scientists track “global drought synchrony” closely ...

What if the most stubborn part of nuclear waste did not have to outlast entire civilizations? Researchers are testing whether particle accelerators can turn long-lasting radioactive leftovers from ...

China has launched what it describes as the world’s first ultra-large deep-sea floating research platform in Shanghai, built to support work from marine ecosystems to advanced offshore equipment. The ...

What if one of the most dangerous leftovers from a nuclear disaster turned into an advantage for a living thing? Nearly 40 years after the April 26, 1986, Chernobyl accident in Ukraine, researchers ...

A solar-powered device that acts like a lab-made leaf can turn carbon dioxide into formate, a simple chemical that stores energy and can feed other reactions. The work suggests a path to making some ...

If you have ever heard that Earth will “soon” switch to 25-hour days, the key word you should question is soon. Scientists do expect Earth’s rotation to keep slowing down, but the change is so gradual ...

A medieval settlement has been confirmed on a lake floor, showing that streets and buildings lie underwater today. That drowned footprint changes where historians look for trade, religion, and daily ...