Fewer Poor People

Defining poverty isn’t easy, but by at least one measure there has been a dramatic improvement. The share of the Continue reading →

Bangkok May Disappear

Bangkok has too many things working against it: rising sea levels, ground sinking from drained aquifers, and its own growth. Continue reading →

SETI Finds New Financial Life

Finding extraterrestrial life would change our world; but, because there’s no money in it, there’s little funding for it. A Continue reading →

One Step Closer To Cyborgs

Cyborgs are totally integrated human and machine. We’ve begun the integration with the simplest steps like artificial joints. The concept Continue reading →

Car Hacks Get Real

Hackers have, yet again, proved that they can control modern cars via the Internet – including things like the transmission Continue reading →

Revised Ocean Rise Estimates

A word frequently overlooked in climate change estimates is ‘conservative’. Scientists don’t want to be seen as alarmists, so they Continue reading →

Innovative Burials

Burial practices defined societies, and were taken as a mark of early civilizations. They were developed with great respect for Continue reading →

2014 Set Climate Records

Take your pick: hottest days, deepest heating, warmest oceans, 2014 was a year for climate records. The chance it was Continue reading →