You Might Survive a Nuclear Blast—if You Have the Right Shelter
The escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation. ..
The escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation. ..
Fat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down? ..
It’s been ticking down the seconds to nuclear apocalypse for three-quarters of a century, but it’s not so helpful when it comes to climate change. ..
Google Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne ..
Half of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away. ..
In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed. ..
If you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable. ..
Two physicists find that our universe has a higher entropy—and is therefore more likely—than alternative possible universes. ..
The World Heritage site in southern Iraq survived Saddam Hussein’s campaign to drain the wetlands. Now they’re drying up, and biodiversity is collapsing. ..
In this cartoon world built to teach concepts from Randall Munroe’s book What If? 2, you can fly a rocket around randomly—or explore the physics of an alternate ..