I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world […]
Sunny Dhillon Contributor Sunny Dhillon is an early-stage investor at Signia Ventures in San Francisco where he invests in retail tech, e-commerce infrastructure and logistics, alongside consumer and enterprise software startups. More posts by this […]
Liz O’Sullivan Contributor Liz O’Sullivan is a co-founder and VP of Commercial at Arthur, an AI monitoring and explainability company. She is also Technology Director of STOP, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, where she fights […]
Interbreeding gets a bad rap these days, but early humans loved a bit of interspecies action. Genes from fossils show our ancestors had entanglements with both Neanderthals and an ancient group called Denisovans. But new research […]
The Atlantic Ocean is currently hurricane fuel. Thanks to, among other factors, unusually warm sea surface temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) now expects “an extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season, bumped up from […]
Some 5,000 light-years from Earth, there’s a picturesque, dying star that’s shedding its mighty gaseous layers. Until recently, NASA referred to this deep space object, known as a planetary nebula, as the “Eskimo Nebula.” Not […]
Ethan Batraski Contributor Ethan Batraski is a partner at Venrock, where he invests across sectors with a particular focus on hard engineering problems such as developer infrastructure, advanced computing and space. Every major technology […]
The opposition to a giant mine in the heart of Alaska’s Bristol Bay — a land teeming with fat bears and the world’s largest run of sockeye salmon — is formidable. Ecologists, bear biologists, Bristol […]
If you’ve ever had a furious debate about the ungodly act of microwaving your cup of tea and how “it’s the same” as boiling the kettle, you’re about to lose — not only to Britain […]
Sewage pipes and water lines aren’t the sexiest things in national parks. But they’re critical. The main water line in Grand Canyon National Park, a park considered a crown jewel of the conservation agency, breaks […]
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