How to Kill a Zombie Fire
Underground peat fires refuse to die, even when flooded with water. So scientists developed a new weapon to put them down for good. ..
Underground peat fires refuse to die, even when flooded with water. So scientists developed a new weapon to put them down for good. ..
A new study shows that concussions and other head traumas can have long-lasting effects on our health. ..
Bats likely gave it to a mystery animal that then gave it to people. We passed it on to minks. Where does it go from there—and could it come back to us? ..
Spurred on by experiments that scramble the ordering of causes and their effects, some physicists are figuring out how to abandon causality altogether. ..
A secret Cold War project led to signs of ancient life—and a new warning about the future of the climate. ..
This column should collect some of the most relevant present-day discoveries and papers — particularly in but not limited to artificial intelligence ..
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. ..
Humans dump an estimated 10 billion gallons of potential biofuel into landfills every year. Researchers found a way to capitalize on it. ..
Covering waterways would, in a sense, make solar panels water-cooled, boosting their efficiency. ..
Researchers used thermal radiation data to find patterns in recent eruptions—providing another metric to help get ahead of a potentially deadly blast. ..