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.