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Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System
Grid batteries have a halo effect for other power generators too. Most thermal power plants—coal, gas, nuclear—prefer to run at ...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars
Satellite observations had shown alternating stripes of light-colored and dark-colored rock in this area. In late March, Perseverance excavated one ...
An Artist Claims to Have Created Paint in a ‘New’ Impossible Hue Conjured by Scientists
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, recently claimed to have conjured the ability to make humans see a “new ...
Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. ...
Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently
Together with his colleagues, Jinshan Pan, a professor of corrosion science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, published ...
This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem
In the arid region south of Mexicali, where the pale desert dominates the landscape, the Las Arenitas wetland feels like ...
As Summer Approaches, Federal Cuts Threaten Program to Keep Vulnerable People Cool
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The summer of 2021 was brutal ...
Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception
A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a person becomes aware of themself ...
FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say
But states are now struggling with funding their basic emergency management needs which, in the off season, include planning and ...
Measles Cases Are Rising. Other Preventable Diseases Could Follow
As the United States grapples with rising measles cases and outbreaks in several states, another vaccine-preventable disease is quietly spreading ...
