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Satellites Can Help Detect When a Volcano's About to Blow

Eye in the Sky

Satellites Can Help Detect When a Volcano's About to Blow

Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica

Bill Gates Is Upbeat on Climate, Capitalism, and Even Politics

wired q&a

Bill Gates Is Upbeat on Climate, Capitalism, and Even Politics

Steven Levy

People Who Text While Walking Actually Do Ruin Everything

People Who Text While Walking Actually Do Ruin Everything

Matt Simon

An Ultracold Plasma Models the Universe’s Most Extreme Places

Almost Zero

An Ultracold Plasma Models the Universe’s Most Extreme Places

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

The Struggle to Vaccinate People in Jails and Prisons

Covid-19

The Struggle to Vaccinate People in Jails and Prisons

Emma Grey Ellis

These scientists are already on the hunt for the next pandemic

Health

These scientists are already on the hunt for the next pandemic

Grace Browne

Two explorers, an avalanche and the front line of the climate crisis

Long Reads

Two explorers, an avalanche and the front line of the climate crisis

Tristan Kennedy

How oil rigs can save coral reefs

Environment

How oil rigs can save coral reefs

Tasmin Lockwood

Covid Meant a Year Without the Flu. That’s Not All Good News

Too Quiet

Covid Meant a Year Without the Flu. That’s Not All Good News

Adam Rogers

Watch a Shape-Shifting Robot Prowl the Big, Bad World

Walk This Way

Watch a Shape-Shifting Robot Prowl the Big, Bad World

Matt Simon

NASA Gets a Quick Peek at a Mysterious Layer of the Sun

Hot Pink

NASA Gets a Quick Peek at a Mysterious Layer of the Sun

Chris Wright

We don’t need to eat insects, but we could feed them to animals

Food

We don’t need to eat insects, but we could feed them to animals

Rachael Pells

How Pi Keeps Train Wheels on Track

Dot Physics

How Pi Keeps Train Wheels on Track

Rhett Allain

A New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole

Animal Crackers

A New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Indoor-Grown Weed Is Spewing Carbon Into the Atmosphere

High Emissions

Indoor-Grown Weed Is Spewing Carbon Into the Atmosphere

John Timmer, Ars Technica

How Far Should Humans Go to Help Species Adapt?

Assisting Evolution

How Far Should Humans Go to Help Species Adapt?

Elizabeth Kolbert

The Pandemic Turns One, Vaccine Trials Adapt, and More News

Coronavirus Update

The Pandemic Turns One, Vaccine Trials Adapt, and More News

Eve Sneider

Ocean Acidification Could Make Tiny Fish Lose Their Hearing

Sounds Bad

Ocean Acidification Could Make Tiny Fish Lose Their Hearing

Max G. Levy

The Perplexing Psychology of Returning to ‘Normal’

mental health

The Perplexing Psychology of Returning to ‘Normal’

Matt Simon

A Genetic Curse, a Scared Mom, and the Quest to ‘Fix’ Embryos

Crossing the Line

A Genetic Curse, a Scared Mom, and the Quest to ‘Fix’ Embryos

Stephen S. Hall