What does breaking up Big Tech really mean?
For Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet, covid-19 was an economic blessing. Even as the pandemic…
The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law
A year into the covid-19 pandemic, Apple commemorated the growing array of devices featuring its…
The race to find covid-19 drug treatments that actually work
The global effort to develop vaccines against covid-19 has been a scientific triumph. The search…
Venus doesn’t have enough water in its clouds to sustain life
It has long been thought that intense pressures and temperatures on Venus made life at…
Is Facebook a monopoly? Please define, says judge.
It was never going to be easy to challenge the market power of Facebook, the…
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…
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…