Photo: Gelada baboon is regal in the winter sun
Our photo of the day comes from "The Wild Place Project."
Photo: The magnificent eyes and ears of a black-tailed jackrabbit
Our photo of the day comes from Merced, California.
Photo: Pelican packs itself up like a pro
Our photo of the day is a lesson in efficiency.
Photo: Hummingbird is a lovely little marvel
Our photo of the day comes from California's beautiful Central Coast.
Photo: Young weedy seadragon soars like a superhero
It's a bird ... it's a plane ... it's a weedy seadragon!
Microsoft submerges data center off Scotland's Orkney Islands
This is the second deployment of the tech company's underwater data center project.
New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ brings new features to the tiny computer
A suitable celebration of Pi Day.
Forecasting urban inundation with a sunny day flood of tweets
Researchers combine social media and artificial intelligence to better predict damage from global sea level changes
Microsoft cutting emissions by 75% by 2030
The action will prevent 10 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
Microsoft's data centers in Ireland are getting an influx of wind power
The tech giant just agreed to purchase all of the energy from GE's Tullahennel wind farm.
Growing virtual plants could teach farmers how to best grow real ones
Researchers are developing computer simulations that can improve agricultural success.
IBM to homeworkers: Get back to the office. Now.
Telecommuting just isn't fashionable anymore; the "water cooler effect" is.
Supercomputer models show severe turbulence will increase with climate change
Aircraft will have to fly new routes to avoid major bumps.
NASA's new efficient super computing facility will save 1.3 million gallons of water a year
The computing facility will help researchers with NASA missions while reducing its environmental impact.
Image recognition software for sharks tells them apart by their fins
A shark's fin is like its fingerprint, with each animal having its own unique patterns and scars.
Computer models show how ancient people responded to climate change
The findings could help us deal with environmental changes happening now and in the future.
Having Facebook friends is associated with a longer life
A new study suggests that a social media community adds to longevity similar to an offline community.
Computer program creates city tree inventories
Using satellite and Google maps images, the program can count and identify the city's trees.
Raspberry Pi has now sold ten million computers
The machine with a mission exceeds everyone's wildest dreams
Happy 25th birthday, Linux!
There's a lot for TreeHuggers to love about the little operating system.
Computer program perfectly replicates your handwriting
Now you can handwrite letters on your computer.
What's that flower? Your smartphone will soon know the answer
It's impossible for a human to know all of the hundreds of thousands of species of flowers on our planet, so Microsoft has developed flower learning software.
Superbook turns your Android smart phone into a complete laptop
It may well be all most people need as a computer, and it may well be what we have been waiting for.
Is Paper "a printer you actually want"?
Designer Ludwig Rensch thinks it is, and so do a lot of other people.
Winner of the "cable of the year" award
Meet the cable that has earned praise as the 'best new technology' and 'invention of the year'
Just what we needed dept.: IBM's Watson mixing our granola
So much intelligence and so much technology, to what end.
Computer program solves mysteries of fossilized leaves
The new program can learn and classify leaves so well that it could reveal the "tree of life" of ancient plants.
Microsoft sank a data center in the ocean. On purpose.
The underwater data center is an innovative attempt by the company to create more sustainable, energy efficient data centers.
Interactive map shows you the weather forecast for 2100
Spoiler: your city will be much warmer year round.
The mini-computer market just got a lot more crowded with this $15 64-bit entry
Smaller, faster, cheaper! Single board computer (SBC) innovations are jumpstarting a whole new wave of DIY devices.
Citizen scientist website could reveal how jellyfish are reacting to a warming world
Jellywatch.org has tapped into the power of citizen scientists to collect data on jellyfish populations and you can help.
You can now virtually walk among the elephants of Samburu National Reserve
Google and Save the Elephants teamed up to bring Street View to the Kenyan wildlife reserve to show its residents and spread the need for conservation.
On MNN: Aging suburbs, the trough of disillusionment and being wrong about everything
And a look at Amazon's office morale.
How to stop future pandemics in 3 easy steps
In order to prevent future pandemics, we need to change our relationship with wildlife
Meet the monkeyface prickleback, the hero we all need
This vegetarian tidepool dweller could be an answer to dietary protein in times of climate crisis, but who could ever eat a charmer like this?
California bans sale of fur clothing
It will soon be illegal to sell, trade, or donate furs of any kind.
Wildlife selfies are a terrible idea
The animals get distracted and distressed. Oh, and you could get your head bitten off.
Lawsuit filed over awful changes to Endangered Species Act
Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt 'extinction plan.'
Portraits of rescued farm animals allowed to grow old
A new book, Allowed to Grow Old, reveals beautiful portraits of something we don't get to see very often: Elderly farm animals.
Declawing linked to chronic pain and aggression in cats
Declawing cats often leads to long-term pain and unwanted behaviors.
Beer and pop cans are not being recycled because car and airplane makers don't like recycled aluminum
Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.
Rivian introduces 3 ton "electric adventure vehicles"
Is this really the future we want?
Aluminum-clad Airship prefab is a durable, off-grid tiny home (Video)
Built using aluminum, stainless steel and wood, this modular prefab is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled.
What's alumina? It is the stuff that aluminum is made of, and making it is a problem.
There is an alumina crisis right now. Making it is dirty and polluting, and it's back in the USA.
Another reason not to drink beer in cans: the aluminum
Recycling isn't enough when demand for aluminum is soaring. We have to use less of the stuff and eliminate single-use packaging.
Dirty coal-fired aluminum gets a boost with new Trump tariff
But hey, it's all in the interest of national security; Americans have to be ready to defend themselves from Canada.
Japanese aluminum company fabricated data about strength, durability
Another reason that we have to use less of the stuff.