The quest to build islands with ocean currents in the Maldives
In satellite images, the 20-odd coral atolls of the Maldives look something like skeletal remains…
$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025
This year has been rough for climate technology: Companies have canceled, downsized, or shut down…
Yahoo will give millions to a settlement fund for Chinese dissidents, decades after exposing user data
A lawsuit to hold Yahoo responsible for “willfully turning a blind eye” to the mismanagement…
Want your own personal satellite? Here's how and what it'll cost
The Las Vegas-based company that would operate the future Las Vegas Spaceport west of the…
Want your own personal satellite? Here's how and what it'll cost
The Las Vegas-based company that would operate the future Las Vegas Spaceport west of the…
AI is pushing the limits of the physical world
Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in…
A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons
Google DeepMind’s latest update to a top Gemini AI model includes a dial to control…
How creativity became the reigning value of our time
Americans don’t agree on much these days. Yet even at a time when consensus reality…
Longevity clinics around the world are selling unproven treatments
The quest for long, healthy life—and even immortality—is probably almost as old as humans are,…
The world’s biggest space-based radar will measure Earth’s forests from orbit
Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the oceans. To understand exactly…