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At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest...

Lighter-coloured cars could mean cooler streets Olena Polkovnykova/Alamy The colour of a car can make a discernible...

Open-pit mining at Kennecott Copper Mine, also called Bingham Canyon Mine, in Utah Witold Skrypczak/Alamy The leftover...

Ripple bugs’ nimble movements on the surface of water inspired a robot with automatically unfurling fans on...

Light pollution makes birds work overtime. A behavioral analysis of nearly 600 bird species suggests that light...

An artwork in Geneva, Switzerland, where talks on a global plastic treaty took place last week FABRICE...

“I cycle everywhere in London…” Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images Having plied their trade in several...

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Are there unseen planets in our solar system? Peter Jurik/Alamy Somewhere at the edge of the solar...

In 2024, 2.6 billion people – nearly a third of humanity – remained offline, the International Telecommunication...