A Project to Count Climate Crisis Deaths Has Surprising Results
Climate change is already killing people, but countries don’t have an easy way to count those deaths. A new project might change that.
Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef?
The USDA is making it easier for farmers to market their meat as “low-carbon.” Not everyone is happy about it.
Gravity Could Solve Clean Energy’s One Major Drawback
Finding green energy when the winds are calm and the skies are cloudy has been a challenge. Storing it in giant concrete blocks could be the answer.
Gravity Could Solve Clean Energy’s One Major Drawback
Finding green energy when the winds are calm and the skies are cloudy has been a challenge. Storing it in giant concrete blocks could be the answer.
This Startup Is Making—and Programming—Human Cells
Creating bespoke cells could transform testing and help develop new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
The Biodiversity Crisis Needs Its Net Zero Moment
Climate change isn’t the only major crisis facing the world. We’re in the middle of a mass extinction, and missing all of our biodiversity targets.
Upside Foods Sues an Ex-Employee Over Secret Lab-Grown Meat Tech
A three-person team within the startup was tasked with developing top-secret tech. When a cofounder was fired, things started to fall apart.
Humans Have Broken a Fundamental Law of the Ocean
The size of undersea creatures seemed to follow a strange but stable pattern—until industrial fishing came along.
The Science Museum Wants Their Plastic Samples. They Refused
Three microplastic researchers have backed out of an arrangement to send materials to the Science Museum in London to protest a controversial deal with Shell.