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Source: Popular Mechanics


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Articles from this source (8)

There’s a Ticking Mercury Bomb in the Arctic. Can Scientists Defuse It?

  2024-08-20 in Popular Mechanics

As permafrost continues melting at staggering rates, the toxic metals its long locked away are reentering the wild.

  Tagged under: Arctic


Earth's Disastrous 10th Tipping Point Revealed: Aquatic Deoxygenation

  2024-07-18 in Popular Mechanics

New potential climate crisis just dropped.

  Tagged under: Tipping Points


A Study Reveals Trees Have Hidden Clocks—and They’ve Started Going Haywire

  2024-04-09 in Popular Mechanics

Something sinister is throwing off the silent timekeepers in trunks.


Earth’s Fountain of Life Is Vanishing Beneath Our Feet

  2024-03-03 in Popular Mechanics

With each passing year, the world’s groundwater reserves shrink.

  Tagged under: Water Resources


Candida Auris: An Unforeseen Threat Amplified by Climate Change

  2023-09-20 in Popular Mechanics

Candida auris is a fungal infection already deadly for humans. Meanwhile, Valley fever infections will only continue to grow as global temperatures rise.

  Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Disease


U.S. Groundwater Is Disappearing, and Our Survival Is at Stake

  2023-09-01 in Popular Mechanics

An eye-opening investigation reveals the devastation happening beneath our feet.

  Tagged under: Water Resources | USA


MIT Achieves Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion

  2022-01-02 (or before) in Popular Mechanics

New experiments with helium-3 in a magnetic confinement tokamak have produced exciting results for the future of fusion energy, including a tenfold increase in ion energy.

  Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Hydrogen | Nuclear Fusion | Innovation


Is GM's New EV Battery a Tesla Killer?

  2020-03-08 (or before) in Popular Mechanics

It goes 400 miles on a charge—and it's flexible in an important new way.

  Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla


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