Editorial Team
A routine trash fire in 1962 set an anthracite seam ablaze beneath a Pennsylvania town—and unleashed decades of government payoffs, legal battles, and defiant holdouts.
Sep 10, 2026
The same hormone that binds mothers to infants may explain why dogs, uniquely among animals, evolved to bond with humans through a single glance.
Sep 9, 2026
A Swiss lab transformed dairy waste into a gold-recovery tool, extracting precious metal from e-waste that most recyclers leave behind.
Sep 9, 2026
Your molars could soon be a renewable power source, turning the force of everyday chewing into electricity for devices you wear.
Sep 9, 2026
Wealth has a color in American higher education, and the gap between elite institutions and historically Black colleges reveals how philanthropy reinforces inequality.
Sep 9, 2026
The waste stream powering electric vehicles and recovering scarce resources might be flowing beneath your office right now.
Sep 8, 2026
In one Iowa county, the map that best predicts where 17-year cicadas were singing in 2024 is a map of the county's trees drawn from aerial photographs taken in 1930.
Sep 8, 2026
Authenticity isn't just nice to have—sustained pretending depletes your mental resources in measurable ways, but knowing when to hold back matters just as much.
Sep 8, 2026
When electricity bills nearly tripled, millions of Pakistanis ditched the grid for rooftops—setting off a solar rush that has left the country's power establishment scrambling.
Sep 8, 2026
Crises don't just hurt—they briefly crack open the possibility for real change before normal life calcifies again.
Sep 8, 2026
The mental health payoff from watching birds is real—but smaller, and more accessible, than the hype suggests.
Sep 8, 2026
The government has a loophole for retirement windfalls—but only if you know to look for it.
Sep 8, 2026
As data centers consume ever more power, one facility in Denmark shows how to turn a costly cooling problem into a heating solution for thousands of households.
Sep 8, 2026
Dong Wang at the University of California San Diego and Steven Benner at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Alachua, Florida, the two senior…
Sep 7, 2026
