The sleek new vessel cuts emissions by 99% compared to air freight, and 90% compared to container ships.

Brookings experts weigh in

NASA’s Caleb Scharf talks with Big Think about life’s long experiment in expansion.

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

One important lesson: Keep pressing our limits until we reach our limits Quick Summary A retired couple completed a 4,800-mile tandem bicycle trip across America, emphasizing continuous learning and challenging limits. They found that slowing down, engaging with locals, and prioritizing nine hours of sleep daily were crucial for their journey. The experience provided a fresh perspective on retirement, highlighting the generosity of Americans and reducing daily anxieties.

Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.

Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

Beijing’s massive manufacturing investments have driven the costs of clean energy down

We’ve known intuitively for centuries that spending time in nature can give us a boost. But it’s only recently that scientists have begun to identify exactly what it is about the outdoors that has such a powerful effect on our mood and our minds. This week, psychologist Marc Berman explores how spending time in nature can actually undo some of the harmful effects of our modern lives.

Where climate forces are fueling more dangerous flooding

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Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty. Somewhat related

DM Good day to you! Today I'm pondering (while scheduling my flu and covid vaccines) as to whether our seemingly distinctly separate, yet interrelated, innate and adaptive immune "systems" are different holophrens, or are of one more complex or "compound" phenomenon? Your thoughts? (Refer to our many past conversation on the Universal Holophren™ with its 4 primary domains and 13 total contexts.) What a delightful convergence of ideas - contemplating immunity while caring for

In a memo, the Microsoft co-founder warned against climate alarmism and appears to have shifted some of his views about climate change.

Tighter regulations on cell phones, less on nuclear plants?

It’s time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.

DM Are you familiar with "terror management theory," and if so, please provide your understandings and perspectives. I am indeed familiar with terror management theory, and I'd be happy to walk you through this fascinating psychological framework. Terror management theory, often abbreviated as TMT, emerged in the 1980s from the work of social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The theory attempts to answer a profound question: how do human bei

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

DM Upon a walk in a forest today, I was considering the diversity of tree leaf shapes, and how each species of tree seems to maintain these shapes. I realize there are many reasons beyond my imagination for this persistent variation. However, I surmise there may be (at least) two primary factors: optimal functional efficiency and optimal environmental durability. So considering the southeastern U.S. forest in which I was walking (which appeared to be relatively mature), and u

Some of the incredible winning and honored images from this year’s photomicrography competition, selected from nearly 2,000 entries. See if you can guess what each image is showing before reading the caption.