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What fast fashion costs the world
Many clothing donations end up in an unexpected place — African landfills.
By Ryan Lenora Brown
Star Trek has tractor beams. So do we.
By Glenn McDonald
To track inequality in cities, measure the heat
By Adina Solomon
My dog died, and all I got was this lousy tote bag
By Schuyler Velasco
To track inequality in cities, measure the heat
By Adina Solomon
Cats helped build the internet. Now, the web is giving back.
By Eoin O'Carroll
Stories in Culture
Stories in Humans+Robots
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
I failed to trick the adbots. Here’s what I learned.
By Glenn McDonald
You’re a poet. AI knows it.
By Tony Rehagen
Outside
Did a legendary trout really ride the rails from California to Missouri?
Scientists use DNA to solve genetic puzzles in waters around the world. But in Crane Creek, the mystery got deeper.
By Matt Crossman
Online, Black gardeners are celebrating the act of working their own land
By A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
The best way to understand Switzerland? Ride a cow.
By Veronique Greenwood
Inside
When modern life gets tough, I take refuge in history podcasts
The astonishing medicinal powers of obscure facts, obsessive professors, and droning BBC historians.
By Glenn McDonald
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.
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.