Articles by

Chris Baraniuk

The Hunt for the Most Efficient Heat Pump in the World

Outside a 100-year-old house on the edge of the Peak District in northern England, a heat pump’s...

Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing

Rising sea levels, biodiversity collapse, extreme weather—these are the grisly horsemen of climate apocalypse. But don’t forget...

Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation

Climate law experts are already calling it one of the most impactful rulings on human rights and...

Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed so Quickly

Just shy of half past one in the morning, the MV Dali, a giant container ship, was...

Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft

Something had gone wrong with the giant radio tower. Will Payne, of Payne Media Group, got an...

How to Set Your Thermostat—According to Science

The house in New Jersey came with a menagerie of control panels. Pallid little rectangles with fuzzy...

Europe Is Bracing for (Another) Devastating Drought

The drought in parts of France is so bad right now that some authorities have banned new...

No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work

Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing...