This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are many mysteries in the Amazon. Until recently, one of the most troubling was the vast ...

Among the experiments and supplies delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) today was a new spectrometer instrument that could help show how small particles of dust can have a big impact on ...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have discovered that a purely inorganic crystal grown from water solution can emit circularly polarized light, a special form of light whose "handedness" ...

EMIT will address the question of how mineral dust from the arid regions of Earth affects our planet’s climate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

When NASA installed a unique imaging sensor on the outside of the International Space Station, the original intent was to help map the composition of minerals on the Earth's surface. Far from the only ...

NASA didn’t plan for its Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument to do much about climate change when the device first hitched a ride to space. But roughly a year and a half ...

Hundreds of household items, including furniture, paint and electronics, emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which at high levels can pose health risks. Now, researchers have measured the emission ...

Every living thing on Earth appears to carry a hidden shimmer, a vanishingly faint light that is woven into the chemistry of life itself. That glow is so weak that our eyes will never see it unaided, ...

Two student co-founders have created and released Emit, a social media app created to help users find social events through user-released “flares,” alerting others of new and nearby events. Brandon Li ...