The Secrets of the Heath
Helen Macdonald in The New Statesman: Most of the lowland heaths I knew in my childhood were military-owned. Useless for agriculture, heathland was cheap, so in the 19th century the
How I Learned to Embrace Open Science
Albert Li in Science: It sounded like the right thing to do. I was a first-year Ph.D. student in educational psychology, and my research adviser told me I should consider practicing
An Indigenous Myth and a Geological Survey of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in People
From the Aeon Magazine: Located in the Yukon Valley in a remote stretch of northwest Canada, Dawson City is known as a Klondike Gold Rush town. However, for many centuries
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Cars Beat Climate in Court
Jack Marley, Environment commissioning editor of the Imagine Newsletter: For planning to block a motorway encircling London, five Just Stop Oil activists were recently sentenced to a minimum of four
Some Climate Experts Say Carbon Removal Start-ups Will Limit Global Warming, But Significant Questions Remain
By Ramin Skibba at Undark: On April 11, a small company called Graphyte began pumping out beige bricks, somewhat the consistency of particle board, from its new plant in Pine
Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet
By Sven Bilén at Singularity Hub: When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot
What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
“Cooperation” is the most unexpected phenomena in nature, the mechanics of the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ game theory reveals. More in this video:
For Sustainable Food Production on Land, We Might Soon be Looking to the Sea
by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene: Researchers have found that a unique species of marine bacteria is just as effective at fertilizing agricultural soils as mineral fertilizers that are over-applied to
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Unmasking the Fear of AI’s Energy Demand
Vijaya Ramachandran, Juzel Lloyd, and Seaver Wang at the Breakthrough Journal: Amongst the many energy-hungry technologies supporting modern society, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a major driver of energy
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
By Arik Kershenbaum at Literary Review: If a cow said, ‘Don’t eat me’, we wouldn’t. We seem to regard the capacity for language (by which we mean our kind of
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If Energy Becomes Free in the Future, How Will That Affect Our Lives?
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez at Singularity Hub: Things we used to have to pay a lot for are now cheap or even free—think about how much it costs to buy
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Explosion in AI-driven Data Centres is Putting Pressure on the Grid
Eric Smalley at The Conversation: Asking ChatGPT a question is quite a bit different from searching on Google. This is for a number of reasons. But one that can be
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