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How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America’s Drought

This story originally appeared in the The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.One of...

Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse

Fungi are an indispensable part of your microbiome, keeping the body’s host of microorganisms healthy as part...

Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years

Almost from the start, arguments about mitigating climate change have included an element of cost-benefit analysis: Would...

NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From

NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last month was part of...

We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening

Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has chosen the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, as the initial...

The Rise of the Carbon Farmer

Patrick Holden strolls across the field, pausing from time to time to bend and point out a...

The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot

Old robots never die, they simply fade away. (And probably rust a bit.) This week, Boston Dynamics...

No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused by Cloud Seeding

Dubai is underwater. Heavy storms have caused flash flooding across the United Arab Emirates, leading to shocking...

US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Plan to Fix It

There’s one word that will get any American fuming, regardless of their political inclination: infrastructure. Pothole-pocked roads,...

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

Not long ago, I let a colleague insert an IV line in my hand. He swished saline...

The Paradox That’s Supercharging Climate Change

No good deed goes unpunished—and that includes trying to slow climate change. By cutting greenhouse gas emissions,...

It Takes Guts to Fix Wind Turbines for a Living

Maybe you think they’re majestic. Maybe you think they’re an eyesore. No matter how you feel about...
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