Job title of the future: Weather maker
Much of the western United States relies on winter snowpack to supply its rivers and reservoirs through the summer months.
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Culture
From the editor
Welcome to our 125th anniversary issue! With this issue, we wanted to celebrate our milestone as a publication without dwelling
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This designer creates magic from everyday materials
Around 2012, at a bakery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Skylar Tibbits noticed someone wearing a shirt with the logo of a
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The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age
There is a photo of my daughter that I love. She is sitting, smiling, in our old back garden, chubby
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Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have watched over you almost since
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Music streaming can be a drag on the environment. These K-pop fans want to clean it up.
On Valentine’s Day 2023, five K-pop fans came to a bustling street in the center of Seoul, one of them
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A polyester-dissolving process could make modern clothing recyclable
Less than 1% of clothing is recycled, and most of the rest ends up dumped in a landfill or burned.
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Do you want to play a game?
For children, play comes so naturally. They don’t have to be encouraged to play. They don’t need equipment, or the
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Toys can change your life
In a November 1984 story for Technology Review, Carolyn Sumners, curator of astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science,
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