Bumblebees Are Working Even Harder Than We Thought
Bumblebees are fuzzy, rotund, and indisputably adorable. They’re also secretly swole. The insects can cart around loads up to 80% ...
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Cyclone Mocha’s Quick, Brutal Path
Riders bike past wreckage in Sittwe, Rakhine, Myanmar.Photo: AP Photo (AP)At least six people are dead, 700 injured, and huge ...
The Seabed Empire Funding Britain’s New King | WIRED
In 2019, a partnership between BP and German energy provider ENBW agreed to pay £231 million ($290 million) in annual option ...
Dildo Man Photographs Huge Ice Penis in Canada
A man from the town of Dildo, Canada captured images of a remarkable penis-shaped iceberg off the country’s east coast. ...
NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission Facing Serious Cash Crunch
NASA’s quest to return rocky samples from the surface of Mars to Earth in 2033 is already running up the ...
MTA, NWS, BART, NOAA Twitter Bots Nuked After Elon Musk Tweaks
Powerful, disruptive tsunamis can occur with little advanced warning which makes real-time social media alerts noting their appearance all the ...
What Would Strategic Relocation from Charleston Look Like?
Given these real and growing risks to human flourishing, there is—just barely—time to be wiser. Looking at this future is ...
Renewables Surpassed Coal for the First Time in the U.S.
Fishermen in a boat on the Laguna Madre in front of giant wind generators on the mainland near Port Isabel, ...
See Stunning Photos of How Climate Change Is Altering Our World
Beautiful and troubling photographs of how the world is changing and heating up are part of a competition to pressure ...
‘Oumuamua’s Bizarre Acceleration May Have Been Caused by Hydrogen, Not Alien Technology
In October 2017, astronomers detected an interstellar object traveling through our solar system for the first time. Theories abounded as ...