Technology
Your Money Is Funding Fossil Fuels Without You Knowing...
Banks use your deposits to make loans to carbon-intensive industries. A new analysis finds that $1,000 in your account creates emissions...
A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry
A tiny proportion of Americans—particularly boomers—eat the majority of the nation’s beef. Can clever framing sway a younger generation?
Snow Sports Are Getting More Dangerous
Extreme conditions caused by climate change are making winter sports more risky. From Colorado to Washington, that’s also making mountain...
You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
As researchers try to make sense of “open-label” placebos—fake drugs that proudly announce their fakeness—the mysterious effect is...
The Age of Crispr Medicine Is Here
The approval of the first Crispr-based therapy is just the beginning. Getting it to patients is the next hurdle.
Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
When Hurricane Larry made landfall two years ago, it dropped over 100,000 microplastics per square meter of land per day. It’s another...
The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
Growing the perfect Christmas tree often requires coating saplings in insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides, some of which are...
Energy Drinks Are Out of Control
Highly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade,...
In a World First, a Patient's Antibody Cells Were Just...
B cells are prolific producers of antibodies, but for the first time, scientists have modified them to make other proteins to counteract...
School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings
Playing the guitar is an art form. But the good vibrations you hear are a science.
