How SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket might unlock the solar system—and beyond
If all goes to plan, next month SpaceX will launch the largest rocket in human…
The therapists using AI to make therapy better
Kevin Cowley remembers many things about April 15, 1989. He had taken the bus to…
The US crackdown on Chinese economic espionage is a mess. We have the data to show it.
A visiting researcher at UCLA accused of hiding his connection to China’s People’s Liberation Army.…
We built a database to understand the China Initiative. Then the government changed its records.
How we built it. What the Department of Justice changed on its China Initiative webpage.…
Why blanket travel bans won’t work to stop omicron
Countries are slamming their borders shut again. Since the omicron variant was discovered in southern…
We won’t know how bad omicron is for another month
The discovery of the omicron variant of covid-19 in southern Africa shows how sequencing the…
Renewables are set to soar
Construction of solar farms, wind turbines, and other sources of renewable power will soar over…
The FDA has narrowly backed Merck’s covid pill—but it’s not that effective
The news: A US Food and Drug Administration panel has voted by 13 to 10…
We still don’t know enough about the Omicron variant to panic
The news: Just five days ago, South African scientists informed the World Health Organization that…
Can Afghanistan’s underground “sneakernet” survive the Taliban?
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August, Mohammad Yasin had to make some difficult…