1. Limitless Fuel. The same technologies that enrich uranium to make fuel for today’s nuclear fission reactors can also produce explosive material for nuclear bombs. Fusion reactions, on the other ...

Flying is the most climate-unfriendly mode of transportation, yet demand for air travel is projected to continue to increase in the coming decades. Researchers are working on replacing jet fuel with ...

If you think about it, it really is an unbelievable chain of events: Earth, a planet shaped by water and home to millions of different life forms, assembles, from a billion molecules, a person who ...

Around the world, people produce over six million tons of coffee grounds, according to the International Coffee Organization. While some of those grounds make their way to compost, most end up in ...

Instead of spewing planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, many scientists and startups want to turn the greenhouse gas into valuable chemicals and fuels. “We have proven that ...

Over 14 million tons of plastic litter ends up in the ocean every year, killing thousands of animals and birds that ingest it. Much of it ends up amassing in giant garbage patches and over time ...

The world generates over 140,000 tons of electronic waste every single day. This waste is complex, made of many different materials, making it very hard to separate and recycle. Researchers have ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Ultra-bright white paints are the go-to when it comes to cooling buildings. Those paints work by reflecting as much of the sun as they can. An international ...

E-bikes could take the place of enough car trips to cut transportation emissions in England by as much as 24.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to a new study. What’s more, ...

If you like home runs, you’ll love climate change. As the temperature rises, air resistance goes down. Researchers at Dartmouth College have calculated that human-caused warming led to 58 extra home ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A team of researchers in the UK have come up with a solution to these two issues. In a paper published in the journal Nature Energy, they report a novel ...

In a new spin on green electronics, researchers have made a biodegradable electronic circuit board from tree leaves. Such leaf-based electronics, or “leaftronics” as the team from Dresden University ...