The idea sounds like science fiction at first glance. A small American firm, Stavatti Aerospace, is pitching a “bat wing” ...

A whistleblower warns a mishandled cloud copy of Social Security data could put millions at lifelong risk and force SSNs to change.

It was supposed to be a straightforward farm project. Dig a five-acre lake, raise tiger bass, manage oxygen and water quality, and harvest fish. Nothing more dramatic than that. Instead, in less than ...

In a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest, a tiny pollinator has just gained something usually reserved for people and companies. Municipalities in Satipo and Nauta in Peru have approved ordinances ...

Chinese military researchers have quietly built a compact power system that many outlets are already calling a “Starlink killer.” On paper, it can feed a satellite zapping microwave weapon with more ...

In 1940, an eighteen year old and his dog squeezed into a hole beneath a fallen tree in southwest France and stepped into a hidden cave painted with powerful bulls, horses and deer that had not seen ...

Imagine a cargo ship pulling away from port and, instead of burning diesel, it runs on fuel made from the very seawater beneath its hull. That is the vision behind a new United Kingdom project that ...

On a snowy night in the Swiss town of Dietlikon, a red fox and a hedgehog lower their noses into the same bowl of cat food. The scene looks like something from a storybook, yet it is playing out on a ...

A giant tortoise that scientists once filed under “extinct for more than a century” has turned out to be very much alive, slowly roaming one of the harshest corners of the Galápagos Islands. The ...

Ecuador has brought 368 megawatts of hydropower back into service after intensive maintenance at the Agoyán and San Francisco plants, a boost that arrives just as the country continues to recover from ...

In southern Germany, a turquoise gravel lake has quietly become a power plant. Instead of building a classic solar farm on fields or rooftops, engineers have covered part of the water with long rows ...