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Letter from the editor When I was 18, I skipped my high school graduation and headed to Kuwait. It was 1991, the first Gulf War had just ended, and the country was in complete chaos. There was little to no electricity, aside from generator...
Norway’s Rogfast will be the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel. We went down to see it. It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed. I’m currently around 300 meters, or...
The AI era needs ever faster chips. ASML has a monopoly on making them—and a $400 million machine that can produce the tiniest transistors in history. Can anyone catch up? Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest...
As the data-center boom puts pressure on the grid, some companies say the answer isn’t just more power plants but software that dials down centers’ energy-guzzling ways when demand spikes. At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a...
Physicists still don’t know what dark matter, the substance that accounts for most of the universe’s matter, is made of. Now, after decades of hunting, they’re rethinking the whole search.
Researchers are starting to explore the tools and systems we’d need in order to cool the planet. Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an oddlooking...
What’s really worth your attention in the buzzy world of AI? These ideas, trends, and advances are driving progress, shifting power dynamics, and shaping what’s possible. What is really worth your attention in the busy, buzzy world of AI? Our...
Stratospheric cell service, a new spin on air-conditioning, Big Pharma for the animal kingdom, going solar in Nairobi, and more. As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross...
Over the last decade, soccer’s been experiencing a data renaissance. Many of the insights trace back to Jesse Davis. By Andrew Zaleski Imagine tuning in to the opening kickoff of a World Cup match and seeing a player intentionally send...
What we lose when we turn everything into data. By Bryan Gardiner There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail...
