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Professors at the University of Texas at Austin have engineered a new type of gel-infused soil that helps plants water and feed themselves.

Laundry might seem like one of the most run-of-the-mill chores, but its environmental impact can be dramatic.

The cigarette butt-sucking robot is the first to use four legs concurrently to complete a task.

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By 2021, Michel Costa had become a frustrated veteran of an obscure yet devastating war in Europe. The enemy: invasive Asian hornets, which had been massacring his honey bees by the thousand.

The YouTube mechanic shares a money-saving hack that uses kitchen staples to remove ‘every speck’ of rust from metal objects.

A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.

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San Francisco's new Sea Change ferry is officially in service, emitting only water vapor that can be recycled throughout the vessel.

Only three of the top 10 transit systems are in the nation's top 10 most populous cities. Good transit spans the country.

Wastewater surveillance hit the big time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when officials started using this technique to monitor local virus levels.

“You need to give the water a safe place to go... or it'll go to a place that's not safe.”