When you’re looking for a startup idea that could slow climate change, you might become an expert at home energy assessments. At least, that’s what happened to the […]
NASA reveals why it’s so hard to spot alien life — even with Webb
NASA exoplanet scientists explain how the James Webb Space Telescope looks for hints of life, and why it’s so challenging to find this evidence.
I Still Wish Destiny Was An Offline Game
As I sit here, on June 6, 2024 at 11:45 a.m., two days after The Final Shape launched—Destiny’s last expansion in the story arc it clumsily started more than a decade ago—I am notably not blasting aliens nor taking in sweeping sci-fi vistas. I am not playing at all.
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How many Earths does your lifestyle require?
Climate change might be the most significant environmental disaster facing humanity, but it’s not the only one. In fact, humanity already faces five others out of a total […]
The Final Shape Is A Messy, Moving Reunion
There is something about returning to many of Destiny’s previous locations, including the very first areas of the original game, that makes The Final Shape reek of high school. A lot has changed about the series in the ten years since our ghost first found us just outside of Old Russia. Moreover, running down the same…
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SiTration uses silicon wafers to reclaim critical minerals from mining waste
Brendan Smith didn’t intend to be in the critical minerals business. He initially thought his high-tech filters would be good at desalination. But it was hard to beat […]
Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A
Back in 2014, Understory co-founder and CEO Alex Kubicek was on a mission to deploy a network of ground-level weather stations to track weather in real time and […]
China just landed on the moon. And it released footage.
China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon. The Chinese space agency released footage of the event, which will gather samples to return to Earth.
Samara is accelerating the energy transition in Spain one solar panel at a time
Since the shock of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, solar energy has been having a moment in Europe. Electricity prices have been going up while the investment required […]
NYT ‘Connections’ hints and answers for June 3: Tips to solve ‘Connections’ #358.
Connections is a New York Times word game that’s all about finding the “common threads between words.” How to solve the puzzle.