Technology
The World Is Drowning in Plastic. Here’s How It All Started
It’s the miracle material that makes cars, computers, and modern medicine possible. It has also corrupted every corner of the environment.
The World Needs More Gigantic Sci-Fi Sea Dams
As solar and wind proliferate, the power lurking in the world’s oceans is yet to make waves. In fact, tides could become the next...
After Hurricane Ian's Floods, the Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Florida’s storms unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in their wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter.
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova...
Telescopes around the world are capturing photons from the blast, and researchers anticipate exciting discoveries ahead.
Sustainable Farming Has an Unlikely Ally: Satellites
Growers are using images taken from space to quantify how much carbon is stored in their soil and validate the credits they’re selling.
Worried About Nuclear War? Consider the Micromorts
Calculating the likelihood of dying in a nuclear conflict sounds like an impossible task, but it could give us a whole new way to...
Rats Are Invasive Menaces. These Cameras Spy on Them
Keeping rodents off Santa Cruz Island is an exhausting task. But now, conservationists are getting an assist from an AI-powered surveillance...
The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns
A comprehensive mathematical framework treats these crinkles as elegant solutions to geometric problems.
Goats and Sheep Are Brawling in the Rockies. Blame Glacial...
The climate crisis may explain fights as disappearing ice fuels interspecies competition—with goats nearly always winning.
The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain...
Delivering small bursts of electric current via brain implants has long been used to treat Parkinson’s and epilepsy. Can it work for...
