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
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
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
AP/Jeff Chiu
Maps have always been impartial. Now that impartiality is Google's selling point.
Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl
Two sensor-laden machines explore love in the time of automata.
Alexis Madrigal
From 2000 units sold at $10,000 a pop to a billion units sold at $100 a piece.
Ben Barry
Inside the company's Analog Research Laboratory, where designer Ben Barry is "packaging" Facebook's corporate persona
Jon Mooallem
An excerpt from Jon Mooallem's new book, Wild Ones
UTL Productions, LLC
Explorers have been searching on foot for Honduras's mythical city for generations. Now, they seem to have found it from a tiny Cessna airplane, aided by million-dollar technology.
Tristan Lowe
Scientists use CT scanning technologies to better understand the insect world.
Reuters
No matter how much we wish it were otherwise, the economics favor burning fossil fuels.
NASA
Chris Hadfield's return from the International Space Station marks a new era for the final frontier.
On the menu? One googol of potential drink combinations.
Reuters
Like whale oil in the 1860s, oil today has become uncompetitive -- even at low prices -- and that will only become truer with time.
PBS Off Book explains the long history of info visualization.
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.
The Art of Craftsmanship 
Inside the Internet Archive 
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