Technology
Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible
For decades, a black hole that has as much spin or charge as it can given it mass was considered mathematically impossible. A new...
An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic
Cedric Dark is a gun-owning emergency physician, a father, and the cousin of a man who was shot to death. This is what he—and the...
South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement...
Protracted flooding has engulfed the country’s Sudd region due to more water entering the Nile upstream, which is driving conflict...
AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter
The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry.
The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn
US health officials say they don’t know how a patient in Missouri contracted bird flu.
The Coast Guard’s OceanGate Hearings Start Next Week—but...
Because, according to sources, they’d plead the Fifth, the witness list is missing key executives and staff with knowledge of the...
How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3
September will see the appearance of C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, that has traveled for tens of thousands of years...
Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going...
A new report attempts to calculate how much damage shipping our Amazon orders is doing to the planet and how badly the company is...
The Cost of Lightning
Exactly how climate change will impact lightning isn’t clear, but governments, public bodies, and the military are prepping for stormier...
Breadfruit Is Here to Save the World
This calorie-rich, nutrient-dense, and climate-resilient crop has the power to step in for more common staples that can’t handle global...
