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Stories from quarantine: Reporters tested for radiation in the Marshall Islands
MAJURO, Marshall Islands — At first, quarantine hadn’t sounded so bad. A day and night at the Marshall Islands’ finest (and only) resort. A pool, a gym, a beauty salon. All meals included. A gorgeous...
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Five stunning photos that capture the destructive power and stunning beauty...
The eruption of Calbuco volcano in Chile this week has forced airlines to cancel flight and upended the lives of thousands people who live in the area and have been evacuated.Disaster relief efforts,...
View Article'Privacy isn't dead' Snowden’s South American legacy grows as Brazil’s crypto...
Edward Snowden continues to have an outsized role in the global discussion around surveillance and Internet rights. CryptoRave, perhaps the largest conference on cryptology and Internet privacy in...
View ArticleThe 'sexy robot' idea has a long history. Is it also the future of loneliness?
If you've ever whispered soft, sweet words to Siri on a Saturday night, you're probably not alone. The desirability of robots has been a common trope in science fiction for much longer than...
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Toronto's Zoo plans to turn its animal waste into electricity
On a sunny morning in Toronto, an Indian rhino named Vishnu is using his horn to smash a barrel and get to the hay inside.It's breakfast time at the Toronto Zoo, and the smell in this indoor pen is —...
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Nepal's quake preparations not enough, despite 20 years of warnings
Scientists and experts have long agreed that Nepal was due for a large earthquake. The entire country rests on a fault zone, and the country's last major quake was just over eight decades ago. Yet the...
View ArticleHow California is surviving its new water crisis
Drought is the new normal in California, with Governor Jerry Brown earlier this month announcing the first mandatory water restrictions in the state’s history .“It’s a different world,” he said.A...
View ArticleShe opposed Putin. They tried to take away her kids.
They arrested her. Called her a spy. Then they tried to take away her children.All for opposing the bulldozing of a forest preserve that President Vladimir Putin supported.After years or pressure,...
View ArticleA zero-gravity cup lets astronauts get a handle on their coffee
Drinking beverages from a plastic bag just isn't a proper way to be social with your astronaut colleagues. But since the dawn of spaceflight, that's the only way people in orbit could take a drink —...
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Earthquakes create as well as destroy
There is another side to this story.It’s hard to write about the creative power of earthquakes amid the awful destruction and loss of life that we’re seeing in Nepal. The human misery and economic...
View ArticlePope Francis is making waves on the issue of global climate change
Abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage. The so-called pelvic issues are the ones that the head of the Roman Catholic Church really gets worked up about, right?Not this pope.That has been pretty...
View ArticleHow crises can strengthen cities that make the right choices
Chances are, you’re always flirting with disaster. Whether you live in the drought-ridden West, the hurricane-prone Southeast, Tornado Alley in the Midwest, or the Northeast — where epic snowstorms can...
View ArticleElevators are kind of a big deal
Elevators: They lift us up, put us awkwardly close to strangers and, most importantly, they keep us from panting up eight flights of stairs.If you’re reading this on the 45th floor of some looming...
View ArticleIf Tesla's new solar power batteries are as good as its cars, they could be a...
If you’re one of the millions of people around the world who’ve put solar panels on your roof, you're never happy about cloudy weather. No sun means no power.That in itself is old news, and a problem...
View ArticleShe's shaking up the video game industry. From Pakistan
Mariam Adil is making waves in the Pakistani gaming industry — and she's trying to save it from its male-dominated self."An industry doesn’t reach its full potential,'' she says, "by stifling its...
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Do we all have Alzheimer's completely wrong? This man says yes
Throughout his career, Duke University neurology professor Allen Roses has challenged what for decades has been the prevailing orthodoxy in Alzheimer’s research: Namely, the “amyloid hypothesis,” which...
View ArticleAgriculture is thriving in bone-dry California, and that's not a good thing
California's severe drought shows no signs of easing — maybe not for years, possibly not for decades — and Governor Jerry Brown has imposed unprecedented water restrictions for both business and...
View ArticleEarth's biggest living thing might be a tree with thousands of clones
The largest organism on Earth probably isn't a whale or a giant octopus or anything else you might naturally think of first. It's a tree — or a group of genetically identical trees that stretches...
View ArticleThe French government's new surveillance law opens the door to NSA-style mass...
The attack on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo back in January was a turning point, says Vivienne Walt, a Time Magazine reporter based in Paris."Until then," she says, "there was a sense that...
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It's open season on Patagonia's voracious, disruptive ... beavers?
Even furry, seemingly friendly creatures like beavers can become big problems when dropped into an ecosystem with no predators to keep them in balance.That’s what happened in Patagonia, where the busy...
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