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Our Ancestors Coped with the Collapse of Ocean Currents. Can We?

Climate history points to past disasters, but it also suggests strategies for survival.

By
Dagomar Degroot, Senior Columnist

Technology

Plugged Out

Experts at a Senate hearing agree that tech harms kids, but questions about legislation remain.

By
Meg Leta Jones, Cartoonist

Opinion

US Science Can’t Dream Big Without Sustained Funding from Congress

Physicists have an idea for a machine that would build the technological advances of the 22nd century. But they need lawmakers to buy in.

By
Flip Tanedo

RECENT

There’s plenty to critique in today’s world. Our goal is to illuminate what’s possible.

Environment

Our Ancestors Coped with the Collapse of Ocean Currents. Can We?

Climate history points to past disasters, but it also suggests strategies for survival.

Dagomar Degroot, Senior Columnist

Health

Measles Season Is Here. How Likely Are You to Recommend a Vaccine?

While vaccination politics are centuries old, vaccine decisions today are treated like a consumer gadget — subject to the whims of brand loyalty and user experience.

Sanjay Basu

Food

NAFTA Is in Tatters

A new NAFTA would privilege human mobility, biodiversity, and small-scale producers and consumers.

Alyshia Gálvez

Technology

Plugged Out

Experts at a Senate hearing agree that tech harms kids, but questions about legislation remain.

Meg Leta Jones, Cartoonist

Space

The Accidental Astrophysicist

She never imagined she would reach the stars.

Malena Rice

Energy

How to Stabilize Brazil’s Power Grid and Its Economic Future

As someone who has developed more than $2 billion in distributed energy projects, I’ve learned that countries scale energy infrastructure faster when they engineer bankability.

Ty Eldridge