Russia is considering an extraordinary engineering feat that could change the global energy landscape forever: a massive dam ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Environmental groups warn that China’s growing demand for energy and rare earths is laying waste to local lands and waterways ...

Here’s why hard disk drives (HDDs) – instead of flash or tape – will continue being the backbone for data-heavy technologies ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

The researchers discovered that penguins switch strategies based on current strength. When waters were calm, penguins swam in straight lines home. In stronger flows, they followed the currents, even ...

Currents can affect marine animals’ locomotion, energy expenditure and ability to navigate; the force of currents may cause ...

The sale capped a decadeslong battle over the future of what Melanie Schlotterbeck, stewardship consultant for the Coastal Corridor Alliance, calls “the last large undeveloped coastal open parcel ...

The region of magnitude 8.7 earthquake in Russia has experienced major earthquakes, but has not shown significant activity ...

Capitalism and greed did not cause the Great Depression of the 1930s. Nor did they cause the Great Recession of 2007–2009.