2025-04-26

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System

This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially. [...]

2025-04-26

NASA’s Mars orbiter snapped this image of Curiosity trucking along down at the surface

The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robot that only moves at a max speed of .1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualizat [...]

2025-04-26

MasterClass deal: Save 40 percent on an annual subscription

MasterClass is a good platform to learn a new skill and transfer that doom-scrolling energy into something more productive — and probably more fun, too. Now, you can sign up for MasterClass at a dis [...]

2025-04-25

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible

Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever. [...]

2025-04-25

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red Planet. [...]

2025-04-25

A grim signal: Atmospheric CO2 soared in 2024

Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but it might mean that carbon absorption is slowing down. [...]

2025-04-25

New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

"Microlensing" lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star. [...]

2025-04-24

Can I offer you a nice image of the Sun in these trying times?

The joint ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter mission has delivered a stunning new image of the Sun and its corona. The sun-observing satellite originally launched in 2020, and besides making the Sun look cool [...]

2025-04-24

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. [...]