This Scary Map Shows How Climate Change Will Transform Your City
Click on your city, and the map will pinpoint a modern analog city that matches what your climate may be in 2080. The results are startling.
There’s Still So Much We Need to Learn About Weed—and Fast
A new research center will finally quantify cannabis' toll on the environment, as well as how existing rules affect the growers themselves.
Gaze Upon the Black Magic of Electrical Discharge Machining
Ever seen GIFs of metal parts fitting together so precisely that the boundaries between them seem to disappear? That's the joy of EDM. (Um, the other EDM.)
This Birdlike Robot Uses Thrusters to Float on Two Legs
Leonardo the lanky robot can sort of hover-walk on two legs—and that could land it on Mars one day.
The Punishing Polar Vortex Is Ideal for Cassie the Robot
While humans suffer, a trunkless pair of ostrich-like legs is braving the frozen grounds of the University of Michigan, for the good of science.
A Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga. But This Is No Game
A machine is mastering the complex physics of Jenga. That's a big step in the daunting quest to get robots to manipulate objects in the real world.
This App Lets Kenya’s Farmers Access Satellite Data to Monitor Crops
Using satellite data from the UN, PlantVillage monitors biomass on a plot of land, giving farmers insight into how their crops are growing.
Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat Invasion
On the Galapagos Island of Seymour Norte, conservationists scramble to destroy every last invasive rodent before the ecosystem descends into chaos.
The Water in Your Toilet Could Fight Climate Change One Day
Researchers are beginning to explore how we might tweak wastewater treatment to capture CO2 instead of emitting it, slowing the ravages of climate change.
Watching the Super Blood Wolf Moon? What to Know About This Lunar Phenomenon
A total lunar eclipse known by any other name ... is still a total lunar eclipse.