My sweet new ride is a golf cart
More community, fewer carbon emissions — why “low-speed vehicles” are taking over towns
By Matt Crossman
These highly trained rats have sniffed out 150,000 explosives
By Molly Callahan
In Mexico City, public transit takes to the air
By Adina Solomon
When AI joins the band
By Tony Rehagen
Is time travel possible?
By Glenn McDonald
I spied on my cat with a GPS tracker
By S.I. Rosenbaum
Culture + Society
Vending machines will sell you (almost) anything
By Alix Strauss
How learning to communicate with aliens could save humanity
By Eoin O’Carroll
Kindness is cool. This online game rewards it.
By Tony Rehagen
Charging EVs takes time. So rest stops could become luxurious.
By Ezra Haber Glenn
How ‘Match.com for roommates’ could save seniors from homelessness
By Hanna Merzbach
With help from AI, a Holocaust survivor’s story lives on
By Tony Rehagen
Event Horizon
A 3D printer could make your next meal
Tiny chicken cubes stuffed with polenta. Cakes with ‘Happy Birthday’ printed inside. Here’s what’s possible with an ‘autonomous digital chef.’
By Glenn McDonald
Why are we seeing all these UFOs?
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
Cities + Nature
Remnants of ancient civilizations are all around us. How much can we uncover?
As technology makes it easier to locate Native American ruins, an archaelogical site could be in your subdivision.
By Matt Crossman
Every city needs a ‘chief heat officer’
By Ryan Lenora Brown
The race to save the real-life Atlantis
By Stav Dimitropoulos
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.