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The Artist Who Is Reimagining Earth’s Natural Future
Poet, painter, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann shares an optimistic view of nature even as the human impact on the planet grows larger.
These US Sheriffs Are Refusing to Enforce COVID Restrictions
With Thanksgiving days away, sheriffs in North Dakota, Utah, and New York are resisting orders to enforce mask mandates and social distancing, including limits on large gatherings.
Sea Level Rise Will Flood Key Internet Infrastructure Within 15 Years
NYC, Miami, and Seattle are among the metropolitan regions most vulnerable to internet infrastructure damage due to climate change.
Good News: This Terrifying Android Just Learned How to Run
A priceless skill for hunting humans to extinction.
This Might Be the Most Accurate Map of the World
The map won a coveted Japanese design award for its accuracy and design.
Is the Higgs Boson Acting Weird Again at the LHC?
A new signal excess is probably a statistical fluke, but, if not, we could again be talking about New Physics.
Meet Brazil's MC Bin Laden, the "Crazy Ass Kid" Who Just Wants to Come to America
Is the viral star the "biggest villain of the century"—or just a 22-year-old from a poor neighborhood who did good in life?
Why Do We Feel So Bad When Boston Dynamics' New Robot Falls Down?
I get knocked down, but I get up again.
A Startup Can Now Fill Out Your Paperwork to Become a Startup
Because you have better things to do than fill out mounds of paperwork.
Did the LHC Bag a Ginormous New Higgs Boson?
The dawn of a new particle physics golden era? Not quite yet, but still.
Aarhus' Venues Don't Care About Being Unique
The venues in Denmark's second biggest city would rather stick to quality.
The 'Sharpest Picture Yet' of the Higgs Boson
Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider combine forces to give new precision to the elusive particle's properties.