Long before sticky notes and smartphone reminders, the people of ancient Egypt recorded their shopping lists, school ...

With "vehicle-to-grid" technology, EVs turn into a vast network of backup power. That could help stabilize the system and ...

Matt Simon is a senior writer at Grist, covering climate solutions. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Wired magazine.

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...

A glacier’s surface crevasses, seen here, form in response to faster flow and higher stresses. New research found that a key ...

Today, a hat is just a way to keep the sun out of your eyes or perhaps hide a bad haircut. But imagine a world where taking off your hat — or refusing to do so — could spark a family brawl, land you ...

Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, a team of scientists in Germany has scavenged a pile of this deeply ...

Keerti Gopal covers intersections between climate change, public health and environmental justice at Inside Climate News.

A new study of our two closest living relatives finds that, at least in zoos, bonobos may not be more peaceful than ...

Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to new research from ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

Five footprints preserved in beach rock capture a dinosaur's steady walk across mud over 200 million years ago.