Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Author: Molly Bergen
04/21/2022
Czech firm 3D prints barriers for Ukrainian army
This Czech company is 3D-printing barriers for the Ukrainian army and will send printers to the country to help rebuild homes after the war.
04/20/2022
Will women leaders change the future of management?
The demographics of work and business are shifting rapidly — and the male-dominated model is overdue an overhaul.
04/22/2022
‘An ecological miracle’: Taiwan’s fireflies are flirting in the dark again
Excited visitors take part in nightly tours after conservationists reintroduce species.
04/15/2022
Our obsession with robots was a distraction from the real threats facing the U.S. workforce
Remember when the robots were coming for our jobs? Before the pandemic, there was a constant stream of conferences, policy reports, and news headlines sounding the alarm about technology replacing human workers.
04/19/2022
New CDC team: A ‘Weather Service’ to forecast what’s next in pandemic
A new team of federal health scientists officially embarked Tuesday on a mission to provide what has often been absent from the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic: better, faster information about what is likely to happen next in this public health emergency and in future outbreaks.
04/19/2022
Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells
The US is spending millions to explore a surprising source of untapped power.
04/19/2022
California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk
Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape.
04/19/2022
What Is the Future of America’s Greenest Town?
After a tornado, Greensburg, Kansas rebuilt as a shining example of red-state sustainability. It wants to be more than a curiosity.
04/19/2022
Opinion: The Right Likes Book Bans. That Fuels the Left’s Cancel Culture.
Growing up in the 1970s, one got a good snootful of what today might be wrongly described as critical race theory.
04/06/2022
Northern pool frogs return to the UK
Loud-croaking striped frogs, which had been extinct in Britain, are thriving after being reintroduced.
04/19/2022
How to solve AI’s inequality problem
New digital technologies are exacerbating inequality. Here’s how scientists creating AI can make better choices.
04/15/2022