Irina Karamanos Adrian didn’t plan on becoming Chile’s First Lady — but she set out to transform the role all the same. She shares how she’s fighting gender stereotypes and protecting democracy by shifting political…
Competition is a core part of human nature, and it can drive us to extraordinary feats. But when it goes wrong, the results can be devastating. Poker champion and science communicator Liv Boeree introduces us…
Artist Doris Mitsch invites us to revel in the wonders of nature through her dazzling photography: stacked images of starlings in flight, hawks surfing thermal updrafts, bats echolocating through the night sky and more. Revealing…
When it comes to technology, we’re often presented with two contrasting visions of the future: one where technology fulfills all our desires, and another where it leads to chaos and conflict. Sociologist Ruha Benjamin is…
A frog and a mockingbird changed Paul Hawken’s life, kindling a devotion to protect and restore nature. Now, as one of the world’s preeminent environmentalists, he advocates for regeneration — a calling and action plan…
Material scientist Anna Maria Coclite unveils “smart skin” — artificial skin technology that responds to touch, temperature and humidity like your very own. (It’s actually even more sensitive than human skin!) From helping burn victims…
The world has plenty of clean energy. The problem is storing that energy and getting it where we need it, when we need it, says battery recycling pioneer Emma Nehrenheim. While batteries are fundamental to…
From World War II to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don’t always see the future as clearly as they think they do, says David McWilliams. Using the words of W.B….
AI won’t kill us all — but that doesn’t make it trustworthy. Instead of getting distracted by future existential risks, AI ethics researcher Sasha Luccioni thinks we need to focus on the technology’s current negative…
The current explosion of exciting commercial and open-source AI is likely to be followed, within a few years, by creepily superintelligent AI – which top researchers and experts fear could disempower or wipe out humanity….