Online Shopping Is Reshaping Real-World Cities
Dark stores—sprouting up in former butcher shops, convenience stores, gyms, and mattress retailers—are taking up spaces once designed to be open to the public. That…
From BioWare to Beer: How Greg Zeschuk Makes Dreams Come True
As a medical student in the 1990s, BioWare cofounder Greg Zeschuk told his future wife that if he could, he’d make video games for a…
Tesla Announce U.S. Tour Dates for Spring + Summer 2022
Coming at you live! Hair metal linchpins Tesla will embark on a United States tour in spring and summer 2022 that picks up from where their Let’s Get…
Tears for Fears, ‘The Tipping Point’: Album Review
Nobody would expect a band that brought dissociative identity disorder and Janovian theory to the top of the charts to rest easy during a recording hiatus that lasted…
The Planet-wide Problem That Is Solar Geoengineering
Climate change doubters and environmental justice advocates don’t agree on much, but some have found common ground in opposition to solar geoengineering research. The field…
Why Cities Want Old Buildings Taken Down Gently
Emily Christensen knows this sounds a little West Coast, but when she enters the old houses her company has been hired to take apart, she…
Remote Coaching Makes Training More Accessible—Even for Skaters
One of my students, 14-year-old Jayne Kim, who I’ve coached for over seven years, says, “Zoom video lessons have helped me see the small details…
A New Type of Aurora Found on Saturn Resolves a Planetary Mystery
Earth’s northern and southern lights—the result of a rendezvous between magnetic fields, energized particles from the Sun, and our planet’s atmospheric admixture—are wondrous spectacles. But…
China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
Wen Li, a Shanghai marketer in the hospitality industry, first suspected that an algorithm was messing with her when she and a friend used the…
A Forgotten Continent From 40 Million Years Ago May Have Just Been Rediscovered
A low-lying continent that existed some 40 million years ago and was home to exotic fauna may have “paved the way” for Asian mammals to…