Why NASA should visit Pluto again
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, a 25-year-old amateur astronomer, spied a small, dim object in the night…
Cities are scrambling to prevent flooding
US cities are working to shore up their flood defenses in the face of climate…
Why England’s sudden lifting of covid restrictions is a massive gamble
England is about to take a huge gamble. On Monday, July 19, the country is…
Work, reinvented: Tech will drive the office evolution
In an early May blog post, Google chief executive officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai shared the…
Is 57 a prime number? There’s a game for that.
The Greek mathematician Euclid may very well have proved, circa 300 BCE, that there are…
How to mend your broken pandemic brain
Orgies are back. Or at least that’s what advertisers want you to believe. One commercial for…
Facebook is ditching plans to make an interface that reads the brain
The spring of 2017 may be remembered as the coming-out party for Big Tech’s campaign…
Pfizer wants to give you a booster shot—but experts say it’s too soon
Is it time to start thinking about booster shots? Pfizer seems to think so. In…
Welcome to the Tokyo Olympics, where public health, money, and politics collide
It’s nighttime on the streets of Ibaraki prefecture in Japan when the Olympic torch comes…
The lurking threat to solar power’s growth
A few lonely academics have been warning for years that solar power faces a fundamental…