Whenever I see pictures of the International Space Station, I think two things: 1) It would be cool to visit and 2) how did they get all those massive girders into orbit? I know the answer to 2) is “big rockets and the space shuttle” but it’s still kind of...

The lost of natural ecosystems such as mangrove swamps and temperate wetlands along ocean coastlines has made us more vulnerable to rising sea levels. So why not try to recreate them artificially? That's sort of the idea in a Northeastern University's project to...

It’s hard to walk through New Hampshire woods these days without coming across at least one game cam, those automated cameras that take pictures or video when something passes in front of them. Initially, it was hunters that popularized them, putting so many cameras...

Twenty-five years ago, the Pathfinder mission landed on Mars using gigantic versions of auto collision airbags to cushion the landing. The rovers Spirit and Opportunity also used the same system. NASA hasn't done it since, apparently because rovers have gotten bigger...

Biochar is one of those things that sounds too good to be true: Turning waste wood into a carbon-locking, soil-helping material through a simple, cheap process (pyrolysis - burning it in a low-oxygen environment). There's a big biochar plant being developed in Maine...