Category: 7. SciTech

Would you pay more for a home with a heat pump?

You can bet I would.

I’d gladly fork over more money to bypass a gas or oil furnace, which—unlike an all-electric heat pump—spews toxic combustion byproducts, runs the risk of poisoning my family with carbon monoxide, and contributes to…

Lava. Ash. Horrifying death.

All are known and expected outputs from an active volcano.

But one volcano deep in the farthest, frozen reaches of our planet marches to the beat of a slightly different drum.

On Ross Island in the Ross Sea, a deep bay in Antarctica, Mount Erebus fumes about 1,350…

Will Lawrence is one of the founders of the Sunrise Movement, a grassroots climate activism group. Now, he’s running for Congress in a Michigan swing district, one of a growing handful of candidates around the country calling for a moratorium on data center development.

Senator Bernie Sanders…

In 1978, a wonder emerged from the crumbling earth of the Gram Clay Pits in Denmark.

Paleontologists were stunned when they unearthed about 20 vertebrae from a single megalodon, including one that, at 23 centimeters (9 inches) across, was larger than any megalodon vertebra ever found, before…