Countries Are Building Giant ‘Sand Motors’ to Protect Their Coasts From Erosion
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When governments find themselves fighting the…
Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?
After a big mistake on his first run, Daniel Yule assumed he was out of the men’s slalom at this…
NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
Way up in the sky and sprinkled across the seas, two of the littlest yet most influential things in the…
NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is still alive out there, barreling into the cosmos more than 15 billion miles away. However, a computer…
This Small Wearable Device Reduces Parkinson’s Symptoms
In 2015, Lucy Yung was a young industrial designer working on assistive devices for stroke victims, people with multiple sclerosis,…
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump
Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. They’re already outselling gas furnaces…
A Study at the Center of the Abortion Pill Battle Was Just Retracted
Scientific publisher Sage Journals has retracted three papers on abortion—including a controversial 2021 study on mifepristone, the medication at the…
How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of…
The US Has Big Plans for Wind Energy—but an Obscure 1920s Law Is Getting in the Way
The reason for the Jones Act’s longevity, says Colin Grabow, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think…
Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
But the solar system contains more than two masses. In fact, it started as a big cloud of dust without…