The United Arab Emirates is investing tens of billions in clean energy, including building the largest solar power plant in the world. And don’t think that this is an isolated case. Although the energy engine that powers the world today still runs mostly on...
Imagine having the option to get a 3D-printed organ. Well, a team of biomedical engineers from Carnegie Mellon University has just developed the first flexible, full-size, 3D-print of a human heart, bringing us one step closer to that...
Some smart people say we should be doing more to protect the Earth from asteroids. The technical issues are relatively easy. The economics — figuring out who’s going to pay — are much harder. Link
Nearly tied with 2016 for the hottest year on record, 2020 was hot, hot, hot! NPR climate reporters Rebecca Hersher and Lauren Sommer explain why more heat trapped in the atmosphere means longer heat waves, less ice in the Arctic, bigger wildfires, and more powerful...
The Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba, tested in 1961, was thousands of times more powerful than even the large nuclear weapons of its time. Learn more about this bomb and why such large designs were abandoned in this episode of BrainStuff. Link
Listen Physicists have done the math and there should be as much antimatter as matter in the universe — but that hasn’t been the case so far. NPR correspondent Geoff Brumfiel explains what’s up with matter’s “evil twin,” antimatter....
