The Northwest’s blistering heat wave underscores the fragility of our grids
The record-breaking heat wave baking the Northwest US offers the latest example of how ill-prepared…
Is Facebook a monopoly? Please define, says judge.
It was never going to be easy to challenge the market power of Facebook, the…
Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Baric was…
Can the most exciting new solar material live up to its hype?
Testing perovskite solar cells in the lab used to require a decent pair of running…
What a collapsed trial says about US claims of Chinese high-tech spying
In April 2018, Anming Hu, a Chinese-Canadian associate professor at the University of Tennessee, received…
They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab.
Alina Chan started asking questions in March 2020. She was chatting with friends on Facebook…
What it will take to achieve affordable carbon removal
A pair of companies have begun designing what could become Europe’s largest direct-air-capture plant, capable…
Brazil’s most vulnerable are struggling to survive the stress of covid
When oxygen supplies ran out in several municipalities across the Brazilian state of Amazonas in…