Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died
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Features and Investigations
AI is pushing the limits of the physical world
Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is
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How creativity became the reigning value of our time
Americans don’t agree on much these days. Yet even at a time when consensus reality seems to be on the
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Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality
Palmer Luckey has, in some ways, come full circle. His first experience with virtual-reality headsets was as a teenage lab
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Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past
The first time the rains failed, the farmers of Kanaani were prepared for it. It was April of 2021, and
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DHS plans to collect biometric data from migrant children “down to the infant”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces of migrant children at
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This grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters
Seven days No matter who he called—his mother, his father, his brother, his cousins—the phone would just go to voicemail.
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This town’s mining battle reveals the contentious path to a cleaner future
Minnesota’s Highway 210 threads through the tiny towns of Aitkin County, a poor and sparsely populated stretch of forests, lakes,
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The worst technology failures of 2023
Welcome to our annual list of the worst technologies. This year, one technology disaster in particular holds lessons for the
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