In the latest Tron movie, Jared Leto’s AI has an offer for humanityDisney Enterprises When your goofy, low-budget, horror sci-fi about an AI doll that runs amok grosses $180 million, you would be foolish not to make another. Three years...
A covid-19 hospital under construction in Wuhan, ChinaSTR/AFP via Getty Images It has been five years since covid-19 emerged, triggering a global pandemic that has had lasting consequences on societies, economies and people’s health. Soon after the virus was identified,...
Mining for rare earth metals comes with environmental consequencesJoe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Rare earth elements used in smartphones and electric vehicles could be extracted from the ground more sustainably using electric fields. Today, most rare earth metals used in...
Thermokarst lakes, formed from thawing permafrost, in AlaskaThe Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images As the Arctic gets warmer, large quantities of greenhouse gas could be released from the sediment at the bottom of lakes, a source that has previously been...
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall takes place in a flooded future New York CityShutterstock / Munimara If you are emerging from post-holiday stupors in desperate need of fresh horizons and new worlds to explore, then I...
Graphs and data were vital to understanding the spread of the coronavirusDaniel Leal-Olivas – WPA Pool/Getty Images As the covid-19 pandemic took hold, the world was transfixed and transformed while we came to terms with just how vulnerable society is...
It is hard to tell if a chicken is an optimist. After all, you can’t ask it if a glass of water is half full or half empty. But you can repeatedly show it a white card in front of...
Travel restrictions were quickly put in place worldwideJIJI PRESS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock These are the key events of the covid-19 pandemic, from first infections to the end of the emergency: 12.12.19: Reports of an unusual pneumonia emerge from Wuhan, China Read moreLong covid:...
Air-conditioning units, which often use HFC gases, on a building in Shenyang, ChinaVisual China Group via Getty Images Emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas released as a byproduct in the manufacture of refrigerants are much higher than reported by governments,...
Artist’s impression of a group of Homo floresiensis with a freshly killed stegodon (Stegodon florensis insularis)MAURICIO ANTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Severe drought caused by climate change may have led to the decline of Indonesia’s pygmy elephants and the “hobbit”-like humans who...
