Back in the 1960s, the nuclear industry promised a future in which electricity was too cheap to meter. Decades later, the ...

Made of tiny bacteria, the new fake plant soaks up more carbon than its natural cousins, and produces electricity to boot ...

Grabbed. Drugged. Tied up. Collared. Animal tagging in the name of science can be rough. A team of researchers wondered what ...

When researchers auto-generated small apartment floor plans to make them efficient and comfortable, they found they could ...

In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from ...

A new survey of bacteria in bird feces reveals how humans are infecting animals, and how the problem could boomerang back to ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Humans need water to live. But the world’s fast-growing population and changing climate are putting the supply of this precious resource at risk. Removing ...

Restringing existing electric power infrastructure with more powerful lines could double transmission capacity on many long-distance conduction lines while saving money and cutting through ...

Now researchers have found that they affect populations of microbes that form the base of aquatic food webs.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A carefully calibrated combination of rooftop gardens and solar panels could meet 15% of a city’s vegetable needs and provide 5% of its electricity on average ...