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When the electricity goes out in Puerto Rico, food and medicines spoil. Dialysis machines stop running. Water doesn’t flow, businesses shutter, and schools close. And while the energy grid’s fragility attracts national attention when a hurricane causes a blackout, Puerto Ricans constantly confront outages. “In the mountains, it only takes a little wind and we...

There’s a tiny bit of good news in the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report: Only 36% of us live in places that get an F grade for ozone and fine particle pollution. That’s too many, of course, but it’s a smaller number than in years past. According to the report, air pollution...

Space Ultralight dark matter particles that behave like waves, called axions, seem to be a better match for gravitational lensing measurements than more traditional explanations for dark matter By Leah Crane A gravitationally lensed image of a galaxy NASA/ESA/STSci Evidence is growing for an ultralight dark matter particle called the axion. A study of light...

Wind was the first thing I heard in the morning, along with a door opening and closing as someone got up first and went out to use the outhouse. Sounds reached into my awareness through the fog of sleep. Then: the lighter button of the propane heater pressed, a metallic clang sounding at least twice...

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE, in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation, launched the Environmental Competition last year. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, climate change contributes to severe weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and tornadoes,...

By third grade (circa the early 1980s), I was regularly sleeping over at friends’ houses. Birthday slumber parties were common, as well as random Friday nights watching VHS tapes in dark dens until our eyes burned. At one friend’s house, we choreographed Wham! songs, and at another, I absorbed MTV like a sponge because we...

Published April 19, 2023 14 min read This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). There are a few things you immediately notice when arriving in Cape Town. The first is Table Mountain — an omnipresent, flat-topped massif rearing up above the Atlantic seaboard, wrapping itself around the city, presiding over everything with reassuring...

Today is a very special holiday where a skunky smell permeates the air. If you’re celebrating 4/20, Popular Science has the perfect lineup of dope science stories to make you everyone’s favorite bud. Don’t puff puff pass on this one! Essential cannabis accessories First things first, everyone needs some cannabis supplies before lighting up. But...

Home News Science & Astronomy A still from footage shot by a United States MQ-9 reaper drone showing what appears to be an unidentified spherical object soaring through the air. (Image credit: U.S. Dept. of Defense) The director of the Pentagon’s new UFO office shot down hopes that the current buzz over unidentified anomalous phenomena...

Home News Spaceflight Lone Star Flight Museum president and CEO Doug Owens (right) and Allison McIntyre, chief of the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, pose for a photo at the opening of the museum’s new Space Gallery on April, 13, 2023. (Image credit: Lone Star Flight Museum) A museum dedicated to...