Five Planets

Compressed Air Energy Storage

A Canadian company called Hydrostor has a new compressed-air energy-storage system that it says is half the cost of grid-scale

In the future? Maybe. Today, not so much. Humanity has begun the process of crossing the mind-machine barrier with devices

With the recent change in leadership, China appears set to take over international leadership of the push against climate change

Macaws were farmed in the ancient pueblos of the American Southwest, primarily for their vibrant and status-granting feathers. Source

Life might eke out an existence far deeper inside Earth than we imagined. Samples from a mud volcano contain biological

The pesticide in question is banned in for use in multiple areas, and causes various and unpleasant damages to the

Breakthrough Starshot is the (mostly theoretical, right now) plan to send probes to another solar system riding on a beam

Not normally considered a protective substance, especially in nature, glass is usually associated with cracking easily. Except that in this

Enormous volcanoes vomited lava over the ancient Earth much more often than geologists had suspected. Eruptions as big as the

It’s a strange title, to be sure, but it’s also truthful – one of the most important components of the