Articles by

Gregory Barber

The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers

It’s clear that Hunga involved an unusually explosive recipe that may not be easily replicated. For about...

Dear Electric Vehicle Owners: You Don’t Need That Giant Battery

“People just don’t want to get stuck,” Melin says. Understandable. And in that case, those people have...

The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away

Last week, inside a gold-plated drum in a Northern California lab, a group of scientists briefly recreated...

The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches

In the late 1960s, a submersible named Alvin suffered a mishap off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The...

5 Good Ideas From COP27—and How Likely They Are to Happen

Things didn’t look particularly good at the start of COP27. The word on everyone’s lips was “trust”—specifically,...