The Fossil Fuels Conversation Needs a Hard Reset
In 2025, we will see a fundamental transformation in the language of climate politics. We’re going to hear a lot less about “reducing emissions” from scientists and policymakers and a...
It’s Time to Make the Internet Safer for Kids
In the real world, we have more than a century of experience figuring out how to share the world with children in order to keep them safe while still allowing...
Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational
In 2025, we will see AI and machine learning begin to amplify the impact of Crispr genome editing in medicine, agriculture, climate change, and the basic research that underpins these...
The Climate-Driven Diaspora Is Here
Many places are becoming increasingly unlivable. And around one-quarter of humanity is already dealing with drought and associated food insecurity. By 2070, one-fifth of the planet could become too hot...
Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic...
COP29 Agreement Says Someone Should Pay to Help Developing Countries, But Not Who
At around 3 am on Sunday morning, in a drained plenary, the gavel slammed to bring COP29 to a close. Coming at the end of a convulsive final day in...
Five common misconceptions about women and entrepreneurship
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women entrepreneurs are essential for the Canadian economy, a fact recognized by the government's Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. This strategy was launched in 2018 and has seen...
Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK
The storms disrupted transport in Ireland, Britain and France. Ireland, Britain and France faced travel chaos on Saturday and one person died as a winter storm battered northwest Europe with...
New tools filter noise from evolution data
Credit: University of Tennessee at Knoxville While rates of evolution have appeared to accelerate over short time periods, new analysis suggests that statistical noise is affecting the data patterns. A...
Mathematicians Just Debunked the ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’
Their result shows the importance of not taking anything for granted, said Noga Alon, a mathematician at Princeton. “We have to be suspicious, even about things that intuitively look very...