Thursday, April 22, was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. So it’s a great time to take a look at our beautiful planet through the eyes of NASA’s Terra satellite, which was launched in December 1999 to monitor the environment and the effects of climate change. These images are taken with the ASTER instrument, which…
Maybe you’ve seen one of these “floating” tables on the internet. They look crazy because at first glance, it seems like the table is standing up on strings instead of on solid legs. Which is impossible, right? I mean, you can pull strings to make something happen, but everyone agrees that pushing on a string…
It was another week of social distancing or quarantine for most of the world, but Google published findings that it has seen 12 government-backed hacking groups undeterred by the pandemic and, in fact, trying to take advantage of those conditions for intelligence-gathering. Another report found that China, for one, has been busy during the pandemic…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Kyle MacLachlan and a bunch of Fremen in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune. Universal Pictures/AlamySteven Kotler’s novel Last Tango in Cyberspace is set in the near future and draws on his 30-year career as a tech journalist. The story is also full of references to some…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. Kyle MacLachlan and a bunch of Fremen in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune. Universal Pictures/AlamySteven Kotler’s novel Last Tango in Cyberspace is set in the near future and draws on his 30-year career as a tech journalist. The story is also full of references to some…
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In early March, when Covid-19 cases began popping up across the U.S., the Philadelphia-based company Solar States was having a really good year, with at least six months’ worth of contracts already lined up. The 30-person company installs solar panels on homes…
Preface: I read a lot. I always have. Take any picture of a teenager today, PhotoShop out their smartphone and replace it with a book, and you’ll have an image of my entire childhood. I read all day, all night; I read at dinner, sometimes sneaking a book to the table under my shirt. I…
Many of us are sheltering in place, which probably means forgoing that morning trip to the coffee shop. Fear not though, it’s possible to make coffee house quality coffee in your own kitchen. Engineering a better cup of coffee isn’t difficult. First though, you need to figure out what “better” means to you. There is…
Even if you’re safe and healthy while sheltering in place, weeks and weeks of social distancing can begin to wear you down. We’ve been working overtime to find ways to reestablish a few small routines that coronavirus quarantines may have disrupted. We have tips on everything from working out at home to working from home,…
As the coronavirus began to spread through Japan in March, workers at a warehouse in Sugito that processes millions of personal care products each day were overrun by a spike in demand for masks, gloves, soap, and hand sanitizer. To prevent workers from spreading the deadly virus, the company that operates the center, PalTac, introduced…
