The Cold War inspired the creation of several key publicly funded organizations, many of them military, that have reconfigured the nation's economy, and the world's, through a series of transformative technology booms. The Defense Advanced Research Projects A… [+4011 chars]
There were 3 million refrigerated trucks on the road worldwide, and the fleet was expected to grow to 17 million by 2025. Peter Dearman's invention seemed like a shoo-in replacement for diesel. Before too long, even the Royal Society, Britain's most esteemed … [+4925 chars]
The history of agriculture is all about human intervention, taking plants and breeding them to produce a better yield or tastier fruit. Ronald sped up this process by using molecular tools to identify the genes that allowed a low-yield rice to withstand flood… [+3792 chars]
There have been more than enough horrific viral videos of the turtles with straws stuck in their noses to show that plastic is a threat to them (Ill spare you by not linking them). Studies have found that every minute, the equivalent of one dump truckload of … [+2784 chars]
A turtle very interested in the smells that pipe has to offer.
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The push against single-use plastic has some emotive mascots, including the iconic turtle with a straw in its nose. The working hypothesis about why turtles are so… [+4426 chars]
In the pantheon of companies that have destroyed the climate, ExxonMobil has long sat on the throne. Its spread disinformation for decades even as it knew the risks of its products, is the largest investor-owned source of emissions since 1980, and the third-b… [+3278 chars]
It started with the California forest fires. Ariella Granett lives in Berkeley, and stapling a paper smoke mask to fit her 8-year-old daughter's face made the planet's ills feel personal. Then, last spring, her son came home from school and announced the worl… [+5470 chars]
David Coleman Architecture recently completed a residential house located in Marblemount, Washington at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Bear Run Cabin is surrounded by dramatic mountain peaks and a forest landscape that the architecture firm’s clients… [+1280 chars]
Cheyenne Rain had never been to wizard school. Or Poland, for that matter. But all that was about to change.
Rain, a cosplayer and makeup artist who posted tutorial videos on YouTube, opened her Facebook messages one day in December 2016 to find an invitatio… [+100529 chars]
Especially now, at this critical stage, we have to accept we're all going to have to buckle down for the long haul. Responding to this crisis is going to have to become part of who we are. All the time. Once you understand that, you understand that this isn't… [+3868 chars]
Photograph: Cody Cobb
Lutz also needed such a vast area to study because he was interested in a relatively rare resident of the forest; to get enough examples of it for his studies to be meaningful, he'd have to cover a lot of land. Lutz's elusive quarry? Th… [+5941 chars]
The Cold War inspired the creation of several key publicly funded organizations, many of them military, that have reconfigured the nation's economy, and the world's, through a series of transformative technology booms. The Defense Advanced Research Projects A… [+4011 chars]