Metallic Aftertaste
Researchers have found another potential downside to climate change: warmer waters could make fish accumulate more mercury, increasing the health risk to people who eat seafood.
View ArticleFingerprinting Fracking Fluid
With natural gas production booming, questions surrounding water contamination remain unsettled. What if there were a reliable way to prove that some of the nasty stuff sent a mile down a well does or...
View ArticleHolding Water
A cabinet modeled after snowpack data Artist Adrien Segal has transformed cold, hard data about snow into an undulating wood sculpture. Segal started with 31 years of snowpack measurements recorded by...
View ArticleRough Ride
Climate change will increase turbulence on transatlantic flights Airplane passengers flying over the North Atlantic will experience more turbulence by mid-century, according to a study in Nature...
View ArticleHeating and Cooling Costs
According to a new study, cooling down hot cities in the U.S. is far less energy-intensive than warming up cold cities.
View ArticleLife Is Short
Some swallows have evolved shorter wings over the past 30 years, helping them dodge oncoming cars. The study, published in Current Biology, suggests that at least some animals can adapt to urban...
View ArticleEnergy Storage Wars
Compressed air technology is an underdog to watch In the battle to scale up intermittent energy sources such as wind and solar, the team with the best storage strategy wins. While many companies are...
View ArticleGathering Emotional Intelligence
Jason G. Goldman reviews Virginia Morell’s Animal Wise It was just after six o’clock in the evening on an autumn day in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. A researcher watched a female elephant known as...
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