The worst technology of 2021
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The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail
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A desert robot depicts AI’s vast opportunities
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This is one reason why being online felt so bad in 2021
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The China Initiative’s first academic guilty verdict raises more questions than it answers
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Our favorite stories of 2021
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From the archives
November 1960 From “Climate Control and the Oceans”: Without a clear picture of how the…
Elyse Flayme and the final flood
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Another tool in the fight against climate change: storytelling
It might sound strange to think of storytelling as a climate solution, but after spending…
The US exports too much of its most valuable resource
The Sulphur Springs Valley is a windswept desert in southeastern Arizona, bounded on three sides…