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Experience is an award-winning magazine that tells stories about the intersection of technology and humanity — stories that look to the future; chronicle innovations in work, play, and human relationships; and examine solutions to global problems.

Experience is published by Northeastern University.

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Staff

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Joanna Weiss @JoannaWeiss

DESIGN DIRECTOR
Michael Workman @MichaelWorkman

DEPUTY EDITORS
Erick Trickey @ErickTrickey
Schuyler Velasco @Schuyler_V

EDITOR OF PARTNERSHIPS AND ENGAGEMENT
Michaela Quigley

DESIGN ASSOCIATE
Chloe Hudson Prock

CONTRACTS MANAGER
Sarah Weiner

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Cities+Nature

Exploring and designing our world

Stories in Cities+Nature

To track inequality in cities, measure the heat

By Adina Solomon

The ocean has more species than we can track, but these biologists are trying

By Matt Crossman

How to live on the ocean floor with five of your closest friends

By Erick Trickey

Have opinions about your city? Chat with the street lamp.

By Stav Dimitropoulos

This German neighborhood has everything. Except cars.

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Did a legendary trout really ride the rails from California to Missouri?

By Matt Crossman

Stories in Cities+Nature

Energy justice is the next civil rights issue

By Erick Trickey

With a settlement named ‘Pandemic,’ housing activists in Cape Town are tackling inequality

By Ryan Lenora Brown and Vincent Lali

As sea levels rise, a Dutch neighborhood floats up

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Rooting out a little-known danger of urban gardening

By Hannah Thomasy

The future of urban commuting has one wheel

By Glenn McDonald

A canoe, a GPS, and my quest for the ultimate social distancing

By Matt Crossman

Stories in Cities+Nature

Fresh (virtual) air will do you good

By Hannah Thomasy

Saving forests with the Big Data fire brigade

By Tony Rehagen

An electronic music pioneer races to capture the vanishing sounds of the wild

By Tony Rehagen

How to really get away: find solitude in these alternatives to national parks

By Andrew Collins

AI can predict the perfect surfing day

By Matt Crossman

Eat like a Martian

By Heather Kapplow

Stories in Cities+Nature

To capture more carbon, a cornstalk needs a friend

By Marcello Rossi

Eat your cake — and the wrapper, too

By Alison Stein

An ‘open source’ agricultural movement takes seeds back to their roots

By Veronique Greenwood

Floating cows and manure robots: A dairy farm on the sea

By Tracy Staedter

How a new breed of barley can save our beer from climate change

By Tony Rehagen

Airbnb or hotel? Chocolate or almonds? The climate-friendly answer may surprise you.

By Schuyler Velasco

Stories in Cities+Nature

See how your choices add up for the climate

Tree-planting campaigns get a high-tech boost

By Glenn McDonald

Measuring climate change, on the backs of scuba divers

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Big, ugly, and green: Rethinking the McMansion for the climate change era

By Kara Baskin

Beyond Plan B: Seven radical climate change solutions

By Glenn McDonald

The universe is expanding faster than we expected. These astronomers want to know why.

By Matt Crossman

Stories in Cities+Nature

Bugs, anyone? How to feed a Mars colony

By Schuyler Velasco

‘After a few days in space, I felt like I'd been born there’

How do you make a human heart? Maybe in zero gravity.

By Tony Rehagen

This African nation could be the next great place for astronomy

By Stav Dimitropoulos

Stargazers fight to save the dazzling dark

By Tracy Staedter

In Mexico City, urban walls are an artists’ battleground

By John Fox

Stories in Cities+Nature

Will Peloton kill outdoor biking — or save it?

By Matt Crossman

Meet the breeders obsessed with creating remarkable new crops

By Veronique Greenwood

Farm veterinarians are increasingly rare. Here’s why — and why you should care.

By Amy Sutherland

Is overtourism ruining your favorite vacation spot?

By Jon Keller

What’s next for space exploration

By Josh Sullivan

High in the air, with an eye on sharks

By Amy Sutherland

Stories in Cities+Nature

How I ‘escaped’ Alcatraz

By Michael Workman

Twenty-eight days under the sea

By Jenni Gritters

The new life of a dying mall

By Erick Trickey

To get across Hanoi, you have to go with the flow

By John Fox

What are public libraries for?

By Schuyler Velasco

A night on a hunt for the homeless

By Ezra Haber Glenn

Stories in Cities+Nature

Alone on the mountain — where I belonged

By Andy Pepper

The 5,000-year-old answer to surviving rising seas

By Eric Niiler

This small island is taking on a big problem — climate change

By Tracy Staedter

I Tried It: Swimming with whale sharks

By Amy Sutherland

‘Creative trespassing’ sets me free

By Ethan Gilsdorf

What you do after your house burns down

By Jessica Palombo Gustafson