Chasing Carbon Zero Sneak Peek
Follow scientists and engineers as they explore different solutions for lowering our carbon emissions: from switching to induction stoves for cooking to making heat pumps accessible.
Chasing Carbon Zero Preview
Can the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the biggest impacts of climate change? Experts say it can be done. Here’s the technology that could get us there.
Why Induction Stoves Are Better for You and the Environment
These stoves use electricity to create a magnetic field that causes the electrons inside pots and pans that contain iron to vibrate tens of thousands of times. This creates the friction and heat needed for cooking without the energy or fumes from gas stoves.
How Heat Pumps Can Help Cities Lower Carbon Emissions
Heat pumps are a key solution to help reduce carbon emissions. Instead of creating heat, they move heat from one place to another and have a much lower carbon footprint. But can we make them accessible to all?
This Fungus Is Spreading Rapidly in Hospitals
Most fungi can’t grow and reproduce in the human body because it’s too warm. But experts say they’re evolving.
Hurricanes Are Getting More Destructive
For 100-million Americans living in coastal communities, more destructive storms are an increasing worry. Some are starting to confront the possibility of losing their land entirely.
How Coating Roads Could Help Beat the Heat
Concrete and asphalt make cities hotter, because they absorb the sun’s energy and re-radiate it as heat, even well into the night.
How Sewage Becomes Drinking Water
Ongoing droughts are straining the supply of clean drinking water. One solution might lie in an unexpected source: wastewater. Through a method of purification called reverse osmosis, Orange County is making millions of gallons of dirty water drinkable again.
How Extreme Heat Overwhelms the Human Body
As the climate warms, small changes in average temperature can have big impacts, including an increase in the number of people exposed to extreme heat.
Weathering the Future Preview
As extreme weather in the U.S. impacts more people – with longer heat waves, more intense rainstorms, megafires, and droughts – discover how Americans are fighting back by marshaling ancient wisdom and innovating new solutions.
There’s Something Living in Wildfire Smoke
Wildfire smoke can carry thousands of living microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, across long distances. Some of them could potentially infect humans. With wildfires on the rise, experts are studying the risk this poses to our health.
How the West Is Making It Rain, With Science
Cloud seeding techniques boost clouds’ ability to drop precipitation by releasing particles that attract water, making it easier for water droplets or snowflakes to form.
Soothing Science: The Light You See at Sunset
While a sunset may seem like any other ordinary thing, a number of physical elements had to come together, in just the right way, for you to bear witness to this colorful display.
JWST Searches for Life in Our Solar System
There are three places in our solar system, beyond Earth, that are good candidates to look for life: Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, Enceladus, and Titan, two of Saturn’s moons.
How NASA Colors Images of the Universe
The James Webb Space Telescope detects infrared light, which our eyes can’t see. Data image developers bring those observations into the visible light spectrum, where they take on the colors of the rainbow.
New Eye on the Universe Preview
Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our universe, and try to detect the fingerprints of life in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.
Ancient Pyramids Uncovered in the Amazon
The pyramid was built over 5,000 years ago, even before the pyramids of Egypt and Mesopotamia, a time when archeologists had believed the Amazon was populated only by hunter-gatherers.
Ancient Cliff Paintings in the Amazon
Ancient paintings on rock walls feature human figures and animals of today’s rainforest, like deer, tapirs, and jaguars. But they also appear to show animals that went extinct thousands of years ago.
Ancient Builders of the Amazon Preview
Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished for centuries, with populations numbering in the millions.
The Mystery and Physics of the Spiral Football Pass
Why does the nose of the football go from pointing upward to rotating downward when most things stay the same orientation when they move through the air? (Think of frisbees, bean bags, even paper airplanes.) The reason is something called "conservation of angular momentum." Discover the physics that explains how a perfect football pass moves through the air.
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