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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…

Mangroves are among the world’s most effective natural carbon stores, but new research suggests their ability to lock away carbon…

This isn’t Google’s first foray into flexibility; the company has agreements with utilities across the US to limit or shift…

For decades, cobalt has been considered one of the best understood magnetic metals. Its crystal structure and basic properties have…

Courts are starting to grapple with this question. In February, a federal court in Michigan ruled that a self-represented person’s…

Many stars are born inside vast clouds of gas and dust in space. As parts of these clouds collapse under…

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The EU has proposed…

Astronomers from the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) have outlined a…

This week I’ve been at SXSW London. There’s been music, film, and a lot—and I mean a lot—of talk about…

Octopuses have long been known for their remarkable intelligence. One famous example was Inky, the octopus that escaped from New…