A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend.
Kiruna’s church went for a walk in August 2025, at half a kilometre an hour, on 224 wheels. The trip took two days and included a daily stop for fika, the Swedish afternoon coffee break, because some ...
A solar telescope in New Mexico is being torn down, and the reason is a pool of liquid mercury hidden inside it. The mercury was the clever trick that made the telescope work. It is now the thing that ...
Opportunity self-portraits from January 2014, left, and March 2014 show how wind removed much of the dust from the rover’s solar panels. These images postdate the first dust-devil photograph and do ...
Placing concrete in a block at the mid-section of the dam, an eight-cubic-yard bucket handled by an overhead cableway. Bureau of Reclamation photograph via the US National Archives (NARA 293921), ...
The Pacific's most powerful storms can reshape coastlines from hundreds of miles away, delivering dangerous surf long before—or even if—the hurricane itself never arrives.
Thematic only: dry landslide terrain at Tuinkhola, Nepal (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0). Not a photo of the August 2026 flood victims. Rescue crews working in flood-hit areas of northern Nepal are ...
A Florida rancher protected his hard-won land from development by locking it into conservation, proving that ownership and stewardship can be the same thing.
A possum in Key Largo is walking around wearing a tracking collar that costs about as much as a decent pair of boots, and everyone involved has a fair idea how her story ends. She was lured into a ...
An ice cave on Earth, used here as a representative image of a water reservoir hidden beneath thick ice. It does not show Ganymede, its surface or its subsurface ocean. Photo by Han-Chieh Lee on ...
Picture a mound of clothing so large you can see it from orbit. Jeans, fleece jackets, cheap party dresses, some with the tags still on, piled across the driest desert on Earth. This is real. It sits ...
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
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