Greta Thunberg Blasts ‘Creative PR’ in Her Climate Speech
This story originally appeared on HuffPost and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At a high-level event Wednesday at the United Nations climate...
Revolt! Scientists Say They’re Sick of Quantum Computing’s Hype
This spring, a mysterious figure calling themselves the Quantum Bullshit Detector strolled onto the Twitter scene. Posting anonymously, they began to comment on...
Anti-Vape Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good
Since July, a mysterious vaping-related lung illness has swept the country, sickening more than 2,200 people and killing 48. As the illnesses and...
The War on Polio Just Entered Its Most Dangerous Phase
In Afghanistan, the problem has been religious unrest: The Taliban imposed overlapping bans on vaccination, both in big events and in the house-to-house...
What is Flutter and Why You Should Learn It in 2020
This year again,...
A Kung Fu Master’s Leap Breaks the Internet—but Not Physics
What would I do without internet videos? It's not just viral cat memes but also amazing humans like this guy, Xiao Qiang. In...
Security for the front-end developer
While cybersecurity is...
When Tech Giants Blanket the World
Juan Carlos Castillo, a state official in rural Mexico, had never received a call like this before. What looked like a giant plastic...
Room to Breathe: My Quest to Clean Up My Home’s Filthy Air
I called Deborah Bennett, a researcher at UC Davis’ Air Quality Research Center to discuss how to clean up my air. I mentioned...
China’s AI Unicorns Can Spot Faces. Now They Need New Tricks
“Applying AI to business requires skills that are more artful,” says Qiang Yang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and...