America’s Most Boring Association Is Fighting the Planet
Outside every front door, life reigns. The air teems with pollen and spores. Bacteria the weight of a cow multiplies underneath a half-acre of soil. Studies…
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Heat Pumps Sell Like Hotcakes on America’s Oil-Rich Frontier
Juneau gets most of its electricity from lakes that offer a clean hydropower resource. This means that it is particularly ecofriendly to install electrified…
America’s largest open-science chloride salt loop will accelerate clean energy technologies
The Facility to Alleviate Salt Technology Risks, or FASTR, system will help…
A company is trying to map America’s cell networks using mail trucks
Cell network coverage maps have always been dubiously accurate in the US, and even the ones released by the FCC in 2021 come with a ton of asterisks. A…
One of America’s most hated companies hired a security robot. It didn’t go well
Can a robot bring you peace of mind?This has, for some time, been a conundrum that's wafted around my inner workings.If robots are so clever -- and some…
Archaeologists uncover oldest known projectile points in the Americas
Oregon State University archaeologists have uncovered projectile points in Idaho that are thousands of years older than any previously found in the Americas,…
America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading
Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon…
New reports document America’s clean energy supply chains
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Scientists at the U.S.…
Hitting the Books: AI could help shrink America’s gender wage gap
Women have faced gender-based discrimination in the workforce throughout history, denied employment in all but a handful of subservient roles, regularly…
America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People
Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced a nationwide shortage of immediate release amphetamine mixed salts. For many people who…