Can tech save us from climate change?

With so many genuine reasons to feel hopeless about climate change, there is evidence that nature has the power to bounce back…

Techno-optimists have declared a nuclear renaissance

Extreme weather is having an increasingly significant impact

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

Anew study has revealed the astronomical scale of the US military’s carbon footprint – and how relatively modest budget cuts could significantly reduce it. Published in the journal PLOS Climate, the r