A resident of Carmel Place, New York City’s first microapartment building.Kathy Willens/AP Like the cities themselves, microkitchens in New York and San Francisco can be either...
An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Insight lander, the first mission to Mars since 2012, is scheduled to land on the...
Flickr/spacexphotos SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk , just used its Falcon 9 rocket to launch a Qatari communications satellite into orbit. The Es’hail-2...
Maximino San Miguel, 102, holds a picture of himself when he was young as he poses for a portrait in a park near his home in...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair Hoesung Lee, center, speaks during a press conference in Incheon, South Korea, on October 8, 2018. Preventing an extra single...
Damian Dovarganes/AP Living out of a van can be a lonely, cramped existence — yet some people are choosing it over life in a standard home....
A rendering of Skysource/Skywater Alliance’s shipping container design for making drinking water out of air. The Skysource / Skywater Alliance About 2.1 billion people around the...
Francisco Nunez, 112, poses for a portrait at his home in Bienvenida, Badajoz, southern Spain, December 11, 2016. Andrea Comas/Reuters Japan has had the longest life...
Professor Stephen Hawking. ANDREW COWIE/AFP/Getty Images Stephen Hawking, who died earlier this year, wrote a collection of essays that were released on Tuesday. The book, Brief...
The indri of Madagascar — the largest living lemur — is critically endangered and highly evolutionarily distinct. If the indri goes extinct, we will lose 19...
