An urban renaissance for public telephones
We can't address climate change without carbon reduction, but we also can't afford to neglect a vital second option: carbon capture.
An interview with the synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis
In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
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A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
NASA
Images of volcanoes from space are often kind of dull. These, we assure you, are not.
Onformative
The faces of the planet, as seen from space
What happens when you let the world's foremost oncologists train the world's smartest computer?
A leaner, faster, smarter system poised to transform how healthcare is taught, practiced and paid for
Nifer Kilakila/Flickr
Well, this is... unexpected.
Reuters
Going underground was the best way for people to stay safe during yesterday's tornado. But there weren't always places for them to do that.
NASA
A gif of the storm from more than 400 miles above gives a sense of the storm's location and scale.
Wikimedia Commons
The Earth is a dartboard, tornadoes are tiny pins, and the big population centers are -- thankfully -- still quite small.
National Weather Service
"We had storms that went from virtually nothing to producing large hail and tornadoes in less than an hour in some cases. So it's gonna go fast today."
AP
House members like Rep. Kevin McCarthy are still avid fossil-fuel proponents, but they've begun to advocate for renewables, too.
NASA
A meditation on the diversity of Earth.
Google/Philip Bump
Ours is a planet and a time deeply shaped by one species -- us.
GeoCities via Yahoo
In 1999, Yahoo acquired GeoCities. The deal left behind little more than a press release.
Werner Kaligofsky
The best metaphor for Google Glass? Not jerks or junkies, but the living dead.
Alexis Madrigal
Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook.
The Atlantic
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, and Steve Clemons discuss the political limitations of the Internet.
And now you can, in a video.
Venue
An hour northeast of Barstow, California, there's an army base the size of Rhode Island, complete with a fake Afghan town known as Ertebat Shar.
Computer History Museum
And it wasn't just Exxon. In Silicon Valley's early days, all sorts of major corporations tried to get a piece of the pie.
NASA
Imagine being alone in space ... and almost not making it back.
Gareth Fuller/PA
... And it was made by, yep, a 3D printer.
NASA
Another victory for Opportunity, the spunky little rover driving on Mars
The world may never run out of oil—and the consequences could be dire. Plus: avoiding the worst parts of death, Henry Kissinger's statesmanship, reconsidering hair metal, and more.
/channel-curation-featured-small.jpg?mn3uze "Can You Really Buy 'Cool'?")
Fauna: Grizzly vs. Video Camera 
Fauna: This Is Not an Indoor Cat 
New Yorkers: Vintage Amps