Wired's video series, 'Five Levels of Difficulty,' challenges an expert to explain a complicated concept to people at five levels of expertise — and it's cool.

Here are a few ideas that can help you live a lighter, healthier, more sustainable life.

Smog in northern India is so bad, it's the equivalent of smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

After the 2007 Burning Man, volunteers repurposed a solar array for a local school. That installation led to many, many more.

Technology could be used to generate electricity or even propel tiny toy cars.

A deceased celebrity tops Barbara Walters' annual list for the first time.

Sure, you've seen classics like 'A Christmas Story' and 'Miracle on 34th Street.' But have you heard of 'Holiday in Handcuffs'? We didn't think so.

Author John Temple was granted unprecedented access to the controversial family.

More than 4,000 deadly snakes call this tiny 110-acre island home, including one species with venom that can 'melt human flesh.'

Scientists aren't sure yet just how widespread these beautiful, glowing hawksbill turtles are.

They might make for terrifying adults, but giant squid are actually kind of cute when they're babies.

They don't have a queen or any larvae, but these resilient insects are still trying to eke out an existence.

Illacme tobini is the second leggiest animal species on the planet — but that's not it's only odd feature.

A terrifying, meat-eating worm is named after John Bobbitt — you know, that terrible episode from 1993 involving Lorena Bobbit and a big knife.

New research backs the tortoise in the classic fable, suggesting slow and steady always wins, no matter the race.

The remains of a megalithic monument, the Dolmen of Guadalperal, have resurfaced in Spain.

After fires burned away the dense foliage, an ancient Australian landmark called Budj Bim is revealed in more depth.

Mark your calendar for math holidays that celebrate moles, spirals and an endless string of numbers!

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, had a menagerie that included everything from dogs and bears to rodents and a one-legged rooster.

Studies show that we track fecal matter, potentially deadly bacteria and fungus into our homes when we wear our shoes inside.

New research shows that viral infections can evolve to affect men worse than women because the viruses consider women to be more valuable hosts.

The International Dark-Sky Association bestows the honor on national parks and monuments that limit light pollution to preserve the night sky.

Boy asks his friends to celebrate his birthday by volunteering at an animal shelter.

Photographers across the country are capturing images of families at home during the pandemic for the Front Steps Project.

July 2019 was the planet's warmest month since record-keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA.

Between record-setting summer temperatures and a brutal winter forecast, fall seems to be the odd man out.

Researchers are predicting a massive drop in carbon emissions this year, levels last experienced around World War II.

What started with casual Friday has morphed into "casual most of the time" — and much of that change has happened in just the last five years.

Whether long and narrow or short and wide, your nose is ideally adapted to a particular environment.

At an annual parade in New York City, men and women don hats packed with everything from Peeps to plastic flying pigs.

Join host Robert Reiss as he interviews Pete Van Deventer of SynapSense and Maryrose Sylvester of GE Intelligent Platforms to discuss GE’s green partnership w

Clip features hilarious group of headband-wearing treehuggers in a VW bus.

Bloomberg Businessweek's Eric Pooley gives an insider’s view of the American campaign to cut carbon emissions and halt global warming.

The decisions of Fred Upton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, may not make sense, but the man has the power to make big decisions.

'Liturgusa algorei' one of 19 new species identified in the tropical forests of Central and South America.

The Brain of Things smart home will turn your home into a robot.

Some devices can already share files by touching, but soon they'll also be able to share power.

The constantly connected computer in your pocket makes it irrelevant.

You can't have an Internet of Voice without an Internet of Hearing, so protect those ears!

A burst of glitter and stinky spray surprise thieves who steal packages from porches.

We're getting more and more smart devices with teensy little idle loads — but they're adding up fast.

Entertainment systems in cars reveal a design problem, not an aging problem, and it should be fixed.

When faced with danger, embryos warn each other from inside their egg.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN (March 26, 2020) - Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) announced the following executive-level personnel changes effective June 19, 2020.  

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) were selected by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to conduct joint research on the effective recycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from the refinery at Tomakomai City, Hokkaido Japan where the CO2 is captured and stored by the existing demonstration plant. Further utilizing of the demonstration plant currently employed for CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS), the three companies will collaborate on research activities for CO2 Capture and Utilization (CCU) in order to produce methanol from captured CO2. The research is expected to run until February 2021.

You can stay on dry land or take in the wonders of this marsh and mangrove mystery-land via canoe. Either way, be prepared to see a lot of wildlife.

You won’t find a home where the buffalo roam across this section of the Great Plains, but you will find 126 campsites at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. You

You're probably not washing your hands the right way, a new study shows. And if you use hand dryers, you're spreading germs everywhere.

A new study looks at the community factors behind the dip in American life expectancy.

We answer all your questions about coronavirus face masks, from how to make one to who needs to wear one and what each kind of mask does.