Rachel Carson’s 1962 blockbuster book Silent Spring broke the logjam of environmental complacency in America and around the world over the freewheeling use of pesticides.

Electricity is life-transformative. It can bring people and families from a literal “dark” age and open up for them an array of new possibilities in education, work, friendship, family, and health.

A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers has unveiled a deceptively simple process that extracts hydrogen—one of the cleanest fuels on earth—by mixing seawater, coffee grounds, and scrap aluminum.