- The internet thinks it has discovered the secret to fuel-free perpetual motion. Physics knows better.
- Powering plant growth with solar panels instead of photosynthesis could be a more efficient way of using the Sun’s energy for food. But it’s not all good news.
- Robots will venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to find ancient water ice, while studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky worlds.
- By studying the so-called mean temperature of restaurant seafood, scientists have shown how the species that fill our plates have changed with time.
- There’s huge potential to generate renewable energy far out in the ocean. But designing turbines that can survive rough waters isn’t exactly a breeze.
- Scientists are getting closer to understanding the neurology behind the memory problems and cognitive fuzziness that an infection can trigger.
- The court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA doesn’t go as far as some climate activists feared it might. But it’s a road map for future challenges.
- China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.”
- Scientists show how microbes living in a salty spring near the North Pole might resemble those that could have survived on the Red Planet—or in ocean worlds.
- New data from the ESA’s probe, now eight years into its mission, adds significant detail to its portrait of nearly 2 billion objects in the Milky Way.