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Making our urban environments greener can help to save species, cool the warming cities and make us happier.

Our communities are getting really smart. Here’s what to expect.

A new technique produces long-lasting movies of nonluminous objects with just a few hundred femtoseconds between frames.

Circa 2016

Richard T. Forman and Jianguo Wu call for global and regional approaches to urban planning.

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When the Wright brothers pioneered their first flight in 1903, they dreamed of transforming the way our world connected. It’s safe to say they would be astonished at the progress of aviation. From that 59 second flight traveling a distance of 852 feet, we have established a world where there is an airport in nearly every major city, giving people the opportunity to see the globe in ways the Wright Brothers dreamed of.

Watch Giant Flow Batteries Could Power Your City In The Future, an Earth video from Seeker.

Rock samples from the island suggest it’s a strange hybrid that represents a whole new way for the planet to make volcanoes.

What would do if you ran into the most massive spider in the world?