Researchers Made Ultracold Quantum Bubbles on the Space Station
In March 2018, researchers launched what looks like a white, cooler-sized fridge to the International Space Station. That heavy box…
A Warehouse Worker Takes the Fight to Amazon Shareholders
Amazon’s organizing warehouse workers have been rattling the ecommerce giant, winning union elections, and staging walkouts to agitate for better…
The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread
When Moritz Kraemer first heard about the new monkeypox outbreak spreading through the UK, Europe, and the US, it was…
‘Sneakerella’ Proves Disney Needs to Try Harder
From the first frame, Disney’s new musical Sneakerella offers a lackluster attempt at diversity: It simply takes one of the…
Undersea Cables Are the Latest Tools for Earthquake Detection
These very words may have flown through an undersea cable before reaching your eyeballs. Hundreds of thousands of miles of…
A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read
I asked GPT-3 your question (“how do you see yourself?”) and this is what it said: I see myself as…
Think Airport Crowding Is Bad Now? Wait ’Til Summer
The appetite to travel again after more than two years of lockdowns and mask mandate debates has yielded one completely…
Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Aren’t Dead Just Yet
People have forgotten what unregulated markets are like. We’ve had 90 years of the SEC and reasonably regulated, well-behaved stock…
Rory Kinnear on Playing the Villain with a Thousand Faces in ‘Men’
I was reading a story in Screenrant and they said “as is almost always the case with Kinnear, he manages…
Patients May Not Receive Miscarriage Care in a Post-Roe America
For those wondering how miscarriages would be managed in a post-Roe America, Texas could be a frightening harbinger. In December…