How ‘Match.com for roommates’ could save seniors from homelessness
Web services like Silvernest pair priced-out renters with financially struggling homeowners.
By Hanna Merzbach
Every city needs a ‘chief heat officer’
By Ryan Lenora Brown
With help from AI, a Holocaust survivor’s story lives on
By Tony Rehagen
These video games are based on nothing but words
By Mehitabel Glenhaber
The race to save the real-life Atlantis
By Stav Dimitropoulos
Culture + Society
How Wordle brought us back together
By Schuyler Velasco
Go to a concert with your friends — without actually being there
By Jim Sullivan
Youth sports is losing referees. This training app could help.
By Matt Crossman
Think opera peaked 200 years ago? These artists want to change your mind.
By Schuyler Velasco
What’s in that petri dish? Your next burger.
By Kara Baskin
How magic survived the pandemic
By Glenn McDonald
Event Horizon
Why are we seeing all these UFOs?
It’s not about little green men. It’s about us.
By Glenn McDonald
Does AI know it exists?
By Glenn McDonald
Star Trek has tractor beams. So do we.
By Glenn McDonald
Humans + Robots
Why Africa needs a ‘Google Translate for science’
By Sibusiso Biyela
Go ahead, accept the cookies
By Eoin O’Carroll
Put down the joystick. Just use your brainwaves.
By Hannah Thomasy
What can tiny living robots do for you?
By Stav Dimitropoulos
He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.
By Erick Trickey
How was the workout? Let me ask my smart socks.
By Matt Crossman
Climate Change
What’s the state of global warming? Ask the penguins.
Inside the high-tech quest to count the birds who signal climate change
By Erick Trickey
He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.
By Erick Trickey
Try a quiz
Your brain vs. artificial intelligence
To understand how AI works, you have to understand human cognition, and recognize the processes we take for granted.
Can you tell the difference between modern and medieval health myths? Take this quiz.
By Schuyler Velasco
Is your dating app spying on you? Take this quiz.
By Schuyler Velasco and Ceci Menchetti
What would you do? Take an immigrant’s journey.
Here are eight immigrant stories, told through composite characters but based on real laws and historically documented scenarios. Follow their paths, and see how you would respond to the choices they faced.