Flooding Wetlands Could Be the Next Big Carbon Capture Hack
Powered by solar energy, these bores have had just as much effect as the original breaching of the bund, but…
Illegal Trawlers Are No Match for Undersea Sculptures
As a carbon sink, seagrass has other advantages too. It’s unlikely to catch fire and release large quantities of carbon…
How to Live Forever
A Nobel Prize–winning biologist explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever…
Insurance Rates Are Soaring for US Homeowners in Climate Danger Zones
The First Street Foundation study points out that insurers could offer discounts to homeowners who take steps to fortify their…
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
We need to make the exterior parts of buildings that people focus on more interesting, so that people want to…
A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
If you have a dog or cat, chances are you’ve given your pet a flavored chewable tablet for tick prevention…
A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon
Two of Blue Origin’s earliest employees, former president Rob Meyerson and chief architect Gary Lai, have started a company that…
The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
Your city isn’t prepared for what’s coming. The classical method for dealing with stormwater is to get it out of…
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation.…