How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm
When a 7.9-magnitude quake struck San Francisco in 1906, it opened the gates of hell. You could have ridden it out, if you made all the right decisions. ..
When a 7.9-magnitude quake struck San Francisco in 1906, it opened the gates of hell. You could have ridden it out, if you made all the right decisions. ..
It’s the miracle material that makes cars, computers, and modern medicine possible. It has also corrupted every corner of the environment. ..
A truly planetary politics would extend decisionmaking to animals, ecosystems, and potentially AI. ..
A 1970 storm that killed half a million people became a flashpoint for political upheaval in Pakistan—and ultimately brought America and Russia to the brink ..
Set your phasers on stun, because we are going to beam you up on the physics of teleportation. ..
For her new book, Devi Lockwood traveled around the world gathering stories of how people are being directly affected by a warming planet. ..
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains the twisty history of combinatorial optimization. ..
A wild thought experiment by Jaron Lanier and physicist Stephon Alexander concerning gravitons, virtual reality, and Incan khipu. ..
A new federal facility in Kansas will house the deadliest agricultural pathogens in the world—and researchers working tirelessly to contain them. ..
The fancy word for it is "entitativity," and it’s produced when people act and feel together in close proximity. We need it more, but we’re getting ..