Entertainment
Popular Science
Citizens Of The World's Edge
Not everyone believes our planet is a sphere. Welcome to flat Earth.
10+ min |
Fall 2019
Popular Science
The Bold Man And The Sea
Inside the ambitious quest to reach the bottom of each ocean and change the landscape of exploration
10+ min |
Fall 2019
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A Campsite In a Backpack
When you’re climbing a steep, rocky trail on the side of a mountain, a bulky pack catching on branches or scraping against boulders will slow your ascent.
2 min |
Fall 2018
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Glimpse Within
A SHARP PAIR OF EYES CAN PROBABLY SPOT SOMETHING AS wee as a paramecium swimming in a petri dish. Anything tinier requires the optical assist of lenses refracting light toward your peepers, making the itty-bitty look big. These microscopes offer increasingly powerful optics, giving you a towering perspective on hidden realms.
1 min |
Fall 2019
Popular Science
Space-Time Continuum
IN THE 5 8 YEARS SINCE ALAN Shepard became the first American to orbit Earth, NASA has deemed just one watch tough enough to wear in open space.
1 min |
Fall 2019
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Starry Night, Done Right
IN THE BACKCOUNTRY, PEERING INTO THE MILKY WAY requires nothing more than waiting for nightfall, stepping outside, and looking up.
1 min |
Fall 2019
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Dinner Is Preserved
THE FIRST AMERICANS IN SPACE SQUIRTED THEIR MEALS OUT of tubes.
1 min |
Fall 2019
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Mars 2020 Vision
Mimi Aung was still a young girl when she learned a lesson that has defined her career at NASA.
2 min |
Fall 2019
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What Beginners Need To Master Vertigo
Despite gravity’s efforts to keep humans grounded, the lure of exploring and conquering massive walls draws climbers upward.
1 min |
Fall 2019
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The Future-Proofing Engine
Oil won’t last forever, and Dubai’s government knows it. To stay prosperous, the city-state bets big on science and technology.
10+ min |
May - June 2017
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Werner Herzog
On the Intersection of Humanity and Artificial Intelligence.
2 min |
September - October 2016
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The Blame Changer
ACCORDING TO A RECENT YALE SURVEY, 7 IN 10 Americans believe global warming is real and happening. And 6 in 10 believe it is affecting U.S. weather. But only 1 in 3 say they’ve personally felt its effects. That disconnect stuck with Heidi Cullen. “You’re never going to think of it as an issue that’s urgent unless you recognize the fact that you’re already being impacted,” says Cullen, chief scientist for the nonprofit Climate Central. Now in its ninth year, Climate Central is part research hub and part journalism outfit—an unusual hybrid that tries to connect climate change to people’s lives.
2 min |
July - August 2017
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Head Trip
WRONG WAY : upside down lightning
1 min |
July - August 2017
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Sand
A tale of innovation, war, and glory.
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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The Winding, Heated, And Absurdly Technical Oral History Of The Ginger Emoji
In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms.EMMA KELLY, editor and founder of the site Ginger Parrot: I checked and saw that redheads were just not on there. I wondered, has no one brought this up? Is there no one at Apple with red hair? Has everyone forgotten about Ed Sheeran?
10+ min |
Fall 2018
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Compressed Camp
WHEN YOU’RE CLIMBING A STEEP, rocky trail on the side of a mountain, a bulky pack catching on branches or scraping against boulders will slow your ascent.
2 min |
Fall 2018
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Where The Wild Things Are
TRACKING WILDLIFE HAS improved our understanding of animal activities such as migration and hunting. Yet most species remain invisible to biologists. Transmitter devices that exceed 5 percent of an animal’s body weight can negatively impact its behavior and chances of survival. Size concerns put the vast majority of animals—including an estimated 75 percent of the world’s mammals and birds—off-limits.
2 min |
Fall 2018
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Body,Heal Thyself
Science Is Looking Inward for New Fixes to What Ails Us
3 min |
November - December 2017
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The Enforcer
Jodi Holeman Tries a New Weapon as She Fights That Blood Sucking, Zika Spreading Invader, Aedes Aegypti
2 min |
November - December 2017
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Can Your Genes Make You Kill?
Science’s search for the roots of violence.
10+ min |
May - June 2016
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Ayah Bdeir
On Prepping Students for the Jobs of the Future.
2 min |
November - December 2016
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Fukushima: Five Years Later
Japan is still cleaning up one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever seen. Steve Featherstone went there to see how much they have accomplished and how far they have to go.
10+ min |
March - April 2016
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The Man Who Would Kill Your Holidays
STEVE HANKE IS AGITATED. AN INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIST given to sonorous talks on troubled currencies, he sits in a book-jammed office, jabbing his finger at an offending email printout.
2 min |
September - October 2017
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Where Did It All Begin?
A new geological finding stirs questions—and controversy—about where and when earliest life emerged.
10+ min |
September - October 2017
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What You Take With You
Death might be life’s natural and unavoidable conclusion, but humans have ensured that what happens to our bodies afterward is anything but.
2 min |
Summer 2019
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An Ecologist Maps Trees From 7,000 Feet
On the big island of Hawaii, a fungus called ceratocystis is murdering ‘ohii‘a trees—at least 1 million in the past eight years.
3 min |
Summer 2019
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The Chemical Weapons Detectives
Toxic Substances, In War And Assassination, Are Hard To Trace. Elite Chemists Are Helping Id The Perps.
10+ min |
Winter 2018
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Alarm Will Sound
As long as nuclear power exists, there will be attempts to swipe its radioactive fuel. Meet the people trying to keep that from happening.
10+ min |
Winter 2018
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Deadliest Catch
Venoms That Can Kill Can Also Cure
9 min |
Winter 2018
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Guardian Of The Galaxy
LISA PRATT WAS NEARLY 2 MILES BELOW GROUND IN A SOUTH African gold mine when the lights went off and the air stopped moving.
2 min |